Metadata thus far has uncovered two terrorist plots and a child porn ring. During the week Shorten was spruiking that Labor had a good record on security in Australia, it was his party that allowed fifty thousand illegal’s to enter the country.
The Australian Federal Police cases were revealed as Prime Minister Tony Abbott pushed to pass controversial data retention laws as early as ...mid-March.
Mr Abbott was briefed by officers at the AFP’s Melbourne headquarters yesterday and said authorities needed better laws to track criminals who were adopting new technologies.
Labor is blocking the legislation in the senate. We must remember when Labor wanted to introduce their draconian laws they were more interested in watching us normal people online than watching terrorists.