Plan for new phone-tapping laws gets go-ahead in Qld

Plan for new phone-tapping laws gets go-ahead in Qld

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Law enforcement bodies have repeatedly called on the Queensland Government to allow telephone interceptions, but the Government has been reluctant to agree without privacy safeguards.

Premier Anna Bligh says Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has now agreed to change the necessary federal legislation to allow a Public Interest Monitor to be set up...

...She says Queensland will start work immediately to give police and the CMC the phone-tapping powers they want.

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The steady decline of Australia into a police state? I thought we'd been getting it a bit too lightly for too long now.

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