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"I repudiate those who assert that privacy in modern times is dead and that we should get over it"

"Privacy will always matter ... because the right to it represents a core and inalienable human liberty"

"[Privacy] will still matter in the face of otherwise overwhelmingly invasive technologies [and] in the face of the attempts by the image and news wholesalers to have us believe that we live in the age of a new normal ..."

Paul Keating – 4 August 2008
(The same Paul Keating who, in the late 1980s, was a proponent of the Australia Card)
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The bulk of Keating's speech dealt with 'Privacy and the Media', and was broadly in line with the APF's Policy Statement of March 2009

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