Peter Gallagher

I predict—or at least I hope—that inter­est in this issue will increase in Aus­tralia if the gov­ern­ment becomes, as the Prime Minin­ster pro­poses, our prin­ci­pal inter­net sup­plier. It will be all the more urgent for Aus­tralians to con­sider whether their con­sti­tu­ional rights to pri­vacy and free speech are ade­quately pro­tected by our rick­ety sys­tem of statute and com­mon law, or whether we need con­sti­tu­tional guar­an­tees still more urgently than we need <a href=“http://www.buddeblog.com.au/analysis-of-the-national-broadband-network-announcement-australia/” title=“BuddeBlog