Perhaps you believe that the Australian government is trying to harm you because foreign companies have led you to that belief with their personalised algorithms.
In any case, the stronger privacy laws would help against both those types of problem.
If only we had proper resource extraction taxes - then our governments would easily be able to afford the required wage increases.
But alas, allowing massive wealth concentration while our resources get stripped away is just too attractive once kickbacks and favours are taken into account.
Perhaps we need an article on sbs news to find out for sure, but my guess is that the experts would tell us that they are both examples of crises.