"No metadata protections for journalists when I was one" - Abbott

WTF? 

And he pointed to his own experience as a journalist in the 1980s as an example for modern reporters. 

"Well in the days when I was a journalist there were no metadata protections for journalists," he said. more

Seriously demented. There was also no internet in 1986 fuckwit.

FFS, and he's running the bloody country.....