[pserwylo]

For those who are unfamiliar with the Attorney General George Brandis, this is one of the people instrumental in implementing two year mandatory data retention.

This is a famous interview he gave which is shows how little he understands about the concept of metadata, and is mandatory viewing for all who are not familiar with him:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw1ryLGs2ws

His utter inability to understand the issues that he is legislating is distrubing.

"What people are viewing on the internet is not going to get caught ... What people are viewing on the internet while they surf is not going to get caught. What will get caught is the web address".

The legislation ended up retaining the IP address that you visit, but not the host or URL. I suspect this is the distinction he was trying to make, but nevertheless, it is still disturbing.

[siddboots]

I think he was trying to make a distinction between an ip address and the request/response content.