In a year when Australian government agencies were fighting to force telecommunications companies to retain metadata records for up to two years, it has been revealed that those agencies gained access ...

The Department of Home Affairs says it would take "considerable time and resources" for it to determine how many agencies across Australia's three tiers of government have accessed metadata held under ...

Mark Pearson has received research funding from the Australian Research Council, the Commonwealth Government, and several other organisations and agencies. He has delivered media law training to ...