I think that's the government's agenda, nobody's quite sure.
On the plus side, before we get completely totalitarianised, at least someone was able to leak the proposed law changes without being shot.
Fingers crossed it's just a typical Howard ploy to get the the other big controversy off the front pages - that other controversy being the massive changes to Industrial Relations laws ... I can't help but feel he's trying to turn us into an 'at will' nation as far as employment goes :(
Edit: typo fixing.