Max Flies To Aussieland! :)

[Chai]

Originally Posted by g0tanks

How would they do that?

Search any suspicious avis...

[empire23]

Originally Posted by g0tanks

How would they do that?

By using a thumbdrive that has search software on it IIRC.

[Papercut]

That's bizarre...must remember not to bring a laptop into Australia

[empire23]

Originally Posted by Papercut

That's bizarre...must remember not to bring a laptop into Australia

As long as you don't bring in porn that would would consider "underage", you're fine. Although this also applies to Anime/Manga/Cartoons, yes it isn't real but the Aussies think it's just as bad. So no loli lol.

My motto is, if there's hair on the cat, it's all good

[Adrian Wong]

Originally Posted by empire23

They're generally looking for stuff like underage pronz.

It's generally random, although i was stopped for a bomb check . LOL. Those ion scanners even detect gun powder, but i had my Weapons act license on me, so they allowed me to go. And customs didn't mind me bringing in sambal in a bottle, as long as it was sealed and cooked.

On another note, Internet is seriously expensive here.

I pay 200 dollars a month, inclusive of line rental for ADSL capped at 60gb a month with 15c per MB excess fee. Ouch. But i share it with my house mate, so we generally pay about 100 a month. Still, that's expensive and we usually have to keep tabs on our usage. But atleast i get 20mbps.

Is that even legal? As I understand it, they can only do that with probable cause.

[Adrian Wong]

Originally Posted by empire23

As long as you don't bring in porn that would would consider "underage", you're fine. Although this also applies to Anime/Manga/Cartoons, yes it isn't real but the Aussies think it's just as bad. So no loli lol.

My motto is, if there's hair on the cat, it's all good

ROTFL!!! That's a funny way to put it!

[empire23]

Originally Posted by Adrian Wong

Is that even legal? As I understand it, they can only do that with probable cause.

Here the law is a bit special, you have state law, which is held up by the individual states, or state law that is common to all states due to agreements (Firearms are generally unified), state law dictates that police officers must have probable cause to search you and provide the cause after that in written detail with a report, and even at that, probable cause is extremely limited in warrantless situations, only applying to dangerous weapons and explosives.

The thing is that in Australia, airports are considered privvy to Federal law which is far different, that's why airport policemen aren't from the state in which they serve in, but under the AFP/ Federal Police, and yes, they can legally search you and if you don't comply, they will make your life extremely hard.

[Adrian Wong]

Originally Posted by empire23

Here the law is a bit special, you have state law, which is held up by the individual states, or state law that is common to all states due to agreements (Firearms are generally unified), state law dictates that police officers must have probable cause to search you and provide the cause after that in written detail with a report, and even at that, probable cause is extremely limited in warrantless situations, only applying to dangerous weapons and explosives.

The thing is that in Australia, airports are considered privvy to Federal law which is far different, that's why airport policemen aren't from the state in which they serve in, but under the AFP/ Federal Police, and yes, they can legally search you and if you don't comply, they will make your life extremely hard.

Wow... The law there is indeed very different.

Does it feel like a big brother state, or is that just paranoia talking?

[empire23]

Depends lah.

I've gone through police checks for my;

1) Driver Authority (public vehicle driving auth)
2) Police Certificate (for my employer)
3) Firearms License
4) Join Pistol Club
5) Queensland Bluecard (anybody who wants to work with kids will need this, regardless of occupation)

I've been here 1 year plus and i've already been assraped with police checks lol, i swear it's paranoia, but in some cases i believe it's very justified. But when it comes to internet, yeah, you generally have the right to be paranoid because under the idea of child protection, cops have a free reign on monitoring PC traffic.

Good with Bad i reckon . But on a nice note, if you ever wanted that dream house and that dream stake in Rio Tinto or BHP, now's the time to buy lol.

[goldfries]

empire, you gonna be Max's baby sister...... eh sitter, right?

can be his personal chauffeur.