Nick Xenophon (SA, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, Senator Bob Carr. Under the United States Signals Intelligence Directive 18, interception refers not to the fact of all phone calls, emails and electronic data being collected and stored but to a human listening to or reading the phone calls, emails and electronic data content. My question is: what is the equivalent directive or legislation in Australia and how is interception defined?