Hack the PM’s phone? She’ll be right, mate. | Scott Ludlam

Hack the PM’s phone? She’ll be right, mate. | Scott Ludlam

 Greens MP Scott Ludlam needs our help to fight for our digital rights and civil liberties.

["European and South American leaders who find themselves the target of NSA surveillance in the name of ‘national security' no doubt find it offensive to be determined a security risk by a close ally. The reality is much more prosaic, as the NSA and kindred intelligence agencies around the world have been engaged in industrial and commercial espionage for decades. Detailed revelations about the pervasive scope of the spying has at last provoked furious debate around the world - not least that much of it has nothing whatsoever to do with ‘national security.'"

"Contrast this with the cheerful oblivion passing as policy here in Australia, where Labor and Liberal have united in bipartisan silence in an attempt to normalise the surveillance overkill revealed by whistleblowers and journalists.

"We are yet to hear a single word of concern from Australia's Prime Minister or Attorney General, and I don't expect that we will. With Australian intelligence agencies deeply embedded in the NSA's creeping global panopticon, it will be up to the Australian Greens and allies working with civil society in Australia and around the world to roll back the surveillance state."]