Australia has never had anything like the 4th Amendment. It's common knowledge amongst people who care that active monitoring of phones has been going on for decades, no-one pretends that it's only foreigners who are of interest. Email and web metadata wouldn't surprise me either, in fact it would surprise me if they didn't collect it.<p>On the bright side, the fact that it's not maintained in deep secrecy seems to mean it's governed better. Operating under a shroud of complete denial is probably the enemy of good process, oversight and management.<p>Anyway, the only thing that's being "revealed" here is that apparently they need a new DC.
It appears the current Australian government has plans for DSD for the next 5 years due to "the G20 Summit and the Commonwealth Games": <a href="http://www.pm.gov.au/press-office/2013-defence-white-paper-renaming-defence-signals-directorate-and-defence-imagery-and-g" rel="nofollow">http://www.pm.gov.au/press-office/2013-defence-white-paper-r...</a>