Comment Re:With all major parties on board (Score 1) 148
May I assume that the Greens are not a major party yet? Or have they aligned themselves with one of them? And are they speaking up? They received no mention the article. Oh well, it's up to the people to vote the 'major parties' out if they are interested in stopping this atrocity.
No, the greens have NOT aligned themselves with either of the other big parties.
The greens have been campaigning against this sort of thing for ages. The Greens spokesperson for media stuff has the following campaigns running:
http://scott-ludlam.greensmps.org.au/campaigns
In particular:
http://scott-ludlam.greensmps.org.au/natsecinquiry
http://scott-ludlam.greensmps.org.au/stopgovernmentsnooping