A list of who has applied for non-warrant metadata access has been released.
Yep., CASA is there.
List of agencies applying for metadata access without warrant released by Government - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Over 60 agencies apply to snoop into your metadata | Crikey
These are the government agencies that want to see your metadata | Business Insider
Seeing outfits like 'RSPCA (Victoria)', 'Bankstown City Council', 'Australian Postal Corporation', 'National Measurement Institute' (who ????), 'Health Care Complaints Commission (NSW)', etc etc in that list, leads me to conclude that getting warrantless metadata access is going to be
very easy for almost anybody.
Could someone please remind me what were the justifications/excuses for all this metadata retention and access ? was it preventing crime ?, terror prevention ?, protecting the children ?