Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Food Not Bombs—it serves vegetarian meals to homeless people. Could an organisation be wire-tapped or have their stored communications listened to? If not, what are the means to stop that happening—on the presumption that a case is put to somebody who arbitrates on a warrant that, through the very name of this organisation and some other allegations, they did deserve listening into? I mean, if the FBI can make that error, what is to stop it happening in Australia, where 250 out of 250 applications by the Australian Federal Police, for example, to intercept communications have been agreed to by warrant-issuing authorities?