The NSW Icac, set up by former Liberal premier Nick Greiner, has the standing powers of a royal commission and remains the original and most powerful of any of the state corruption bodies.
"Extending Ofcom's powers to enable it to take pre-emptive action would move it from its current position as a post-transmission regulator into the role of censor".
Anderson has said his review considered the safeguards to privacy, issues of transparency and oversight as well as the powers needed to meet the challenge of changing technologies.
The legislation will include not only the expected snooper's charter, enabling the tracking of everyone's web and social media use, but also moves to strengthen the security services' warranted powers for the bulk interception of the content of communications.
Sweeping US surveillance powers used by the National Security Agency expired at midnight after a dramatic showdown in the Senate.
But, in practice, it is hard to feel that my decision-making powers have been weakened because when I got my driver's license enrolling in organ donation was the default option.
Gambling on Osborne's known weakness for glamour projects, Bernstein tossed one after another into the pot Most of the city's new powers were regulatory.
As a result, leaders of all parties were making all kinds of offers to hand over powers north of the border, including tax-raising powers that remained a no-go area in the Bernstein plan.
The prime minister will be unable to table his demands for the repatriation of powers before the next election because Clegg has dismissed this strategy as "a false promise wrapped in a union jack".
The Ukrainian government and western powers have rejected the referendum as a sham.
Navi Pillay credited Snowden with starting a global debate that has led to calls for the curtailment of state powers to snoop on citizens online and store their data.
