I suspect this is driven more by surveillance or sabotage risks posed by employee access rather than jurisdictional risks.
Australian law is likely to have little impact on what an SRE or support engineer might be able to do. Australia having an established practice of recruiting and placing enterprise surveillance moles would.
China and Russia have some history with this latter. Though one might say similarly of the US and Israel, as two examples.
Alright, I also thought about Israel and AU at first but this thing is so political
that no way can they include US allies in there because gov wouldn't approve this sort of thing.
To my eye, american companies are becoming more and more like chinese companies in the amount of control governments can extort on them and that is highly troublesome.
I know of a couple major us companies that do include Israel along with other usual suspects but they don’t spray about it on the internet. There’s also growing concern regarding what corporate equipment you can take across us border so there’s that.
Australian law is likely to have little impact on what an SRE or support engineer might be able to do. Australia having an established practice of recruiting and placing enterprise surveillance moles would.
China and Russia have some history with this latter. Though one might say similarly of the US and Israel, as two examples.