The revelation comes from the annual Attorney-General’s Department report on the operation of the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act that gives Australian law enforcement agencies powers to access the call records and other metadata of every Australian telephone and internet account without a warrant. Australian has signed a mutual assistance treaty with China that obliges Australia to hand over “documents, records and articles of evidence” in relation to criminal matters.
— source buzzfeed.com 2017-08-25