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telemus +1 re political and legal analysis. In addition, the surveillance and "legal" control of communications and internet is within the new "super-department" of Home Affairs. In analogy to the USA, this combines CIA (ASIO), FBI (AFP), DEA (AFP), ICE (ex Customs, Immigration, Border Protection), Homeland Security (AFP), and sundry, within the Hidden/Secret/Deep State of the Federal government department, with vicious penalties for whistleblowing/disclosure to the public of any corrupt or illegal or ideological or party political doings. The USA has good reasons for the partition and separation and legally defined boundaries of government power. This consolidation of hidden power has been pushed by the far right quasi fascist faction of the ruling Liberal National Party, which has a centre-right tradition. The centre-right faction includes Prime Minister Turnbull and some cabinet, but is largely controlled by the far right faction and "donors" and Murdoch (Fox) media and backroom party management. Home Affairs is run by a high school graduate ex low level police officer who took to politics called Peter Dutton. Resembles and often referred to as "potato head". Intends to become PM and Big Boss. Latest notable activity was: "Dutton was quoted as saying that white South African farmers may “deserve special attention” from Australia because of land seizures and violence. “ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/03/16/australia-looks-into-resettling-white-south-african-farmers-who-say-they-are-persecuted/?utm_term=.d2aafbf15638 You can get paid for being an ignorant racist pig brain. So comments like this require a VPN and other infosec. Because of the patchwork peering and poor performance of ISPs, and wholesale carriers with international cable such as Telstra/Vocus/iiNet/Optus, even though Eddie shows Reticulum 133ms and Antares 138ms to Air in Singapore, for access to non Australian sources SG is better connected with less peak hour congestion and ping and DNS delays and better CDN service than most ISPs in AU. My ISP uses Vocus via Perth for these Air servers. The Air servers in M247 datacenter such as Hydra are routed via LA USA so 380ms. Might be better for clients in India, Pakistan, Malaysia etc. So Air server performance in AU depends on one's ISP relation to wholesalers and will vary.

Hi there. I've lived in Australia for a while. The internet is rubbish: expensive, unreliable, often slow and compromised (data retention). I had better internet in China! Airvpn does not have a server in Australia. There are posts in the forum on why not, but they revolve round the exorbitant cost (cost of living is often higher than the Scandi countries, without access to Europe and the culture. Beaches kind of do not make up for that.) And the data retention / surveillance state. This has been turned into a fine art in Australia. On the whole, Airvpn works well, but some of its servers have been blacklisted, by for instance Netflix or the BBC. You might need for those sites to get another VPN - but I would urge you to stick with Airvpn for all other activities. Why? Several reasons. Australia does not have a bill of rights, or even guaranteed freedom of speech (some political speech is protected, sort of). Politicians learned long ago they could simply lie to the voters, scare them or ignore the voters' criticisms - so overt control of the press was not required. In any case, one half of the press landscape is controlled by Murdoch. So, they do not need to, in any case. It is easy for the authorities to obtain a warrant, merely by saying they suspect X of doing Y - even if they do not have a lot of evidence. The judiciary is compliant. There is data retention too. The Federal Police (kind of like a cheap FBI) were caught accessing journalists data, without warrant. It was an "accident", they said. [see: http://www.zdnet.com/article/ombudsman-finds-australian-federal-police-unaware-of-journalist-metadata-requirements/; https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/apr/28/federal-police-admit-accessing-journalists-metadata-without-a-warrant; https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/28/australian_federal_police_did_not_delete_metadata_as_promised/; https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/14/federal-police-admit-seeking-access-to-reporters-metadata-without-warrant]. So, all the promises that the data would be used only in extreme cases were hollow. As predicted. The other problem is that unlike the US, where information illegally obtained, and anything flowing from it, can't be used in court (the doctrine of the fruit of the poisoned tree) - no such prohibition exists in Australia. It is up to the judge. So, information can be used even if there was no valid warrant. Additionally, the domestic intelligence service is largely unaccountable; for instance, its evidence to court proceedings and coronal inquests is usually not published (and so cannot be tested) - unlike the US. And indeed, all records of those courts are usually not available publicly, on grounds of "privacy". [Contrast with the US and what happened in the lead up to 9/11. such public disclosure would not occur in Australia.] So, in short, if you live in Australia, you should be using a good quality VPN . They are not yet illegal - but there have been discussions from time to time of making them so. And stay off social media.