"During the debate, the Opposition labelled interception ‘an outrageous and unjustified intrusion into and interference with the private lives of Australian citizens’."
(1960, Edward Ward, ALP)

I'm reading Chapter 26 Electronic surveillance—the case for reform from the Richardson Review: https://www.ag.gov.au/national-security/consultations/comprehensive-review-legal-framework-governing-national-intelligence-community?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social-media&utm_campaign=richardson-review

In introducing the Bill, then Attorney-General, the Hon Garfield Barwick MP, said:
"Eavesdropping is abhorrent to us as a people. Not one of us, I am sure, would fail to recoil from the thought that a citizen’s privacy could lightly be invaded…

much of our normal life depends on the confidence we can repose in those to whom we lay bare our sentiments and opinions, with and through whom we wish to communicate."