Lying liers deny lying
Dutton AND Bishop denying it. That's as good as 100% confirming everything to be true.
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) says it's investigating the leak of sensitive government documents outlining a plan the government says doesn't exist and won't be implemented. The Official Kerfuffle began when Australian Murdoch organ The Daily Telegraph published a story (unlinked because it's behind a paywall) alleging …
> were proposing to give the sigint agency the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) power to spy on Australians in Australia.
But don't they just have to ask the other members of Five-Eyes (US,UK,NZ,CAN) for their intercepts of Australian citizens? After all, it isn't against US law to intercept/monitor Australian citizens communications, only their own. And usually the same in the other members.