Bravo, Australia. Bravo. This is the best troll of pollies I’ve yet seen. Politicians who have their public Australian Parliament House email addresses linked to their iMessage accounts have been receiving iMessages all day from citizens who figured out they had a direct line to their devices.
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Some people decided to give Attorney General George Brandis what for over his metadata proposals:
https://twitter.com/laureningram/status/572218132053426176
Others just decided to have a casual chat:
https://twitter.com/platinumdepot/status/571935090529320960
https://twitter.com/dannolan/status/572186098358616065
https://twitter.com/laureningram/status/572190337277558784
Buzzfeed Australia also received this one to the Minister for the Environment, Greg Hunt.
https://twitter.com/MarkDiStef/status/572221728962707456
Pollies have since been unlinking their email addresses from iMessage.
https://twitter.com/laureningram/status/572246590003421184
https://twitter.com/MarkDiStef/status/572227778944188417