George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

The only agencies that can access metadata are the proposed section 110A agencies. Those agencies include the state police departments and the Federal Police—that is true. But the way the examples you are positing are dealt with will be through civil actions. In particular, the very reason the government is introducing, based on English and other models, a new injunction power to protect intellectual rights is to make sure that these proceedings to protect copyrights are taken in the civil courts.