“Unauthorised” photography in Australia has in fact been authorised since the 1937 High Court decision in Victoria Park Racing v. Taylor (1937) 58 CLR 479 (at p.496).
This was reaffirmed recently in ABC v Lenah (2001) HCA 63, where the Court ruled that despite the passage of decades since Victoria Park, any concept of a “Tort of invasion of privacy” still does not exist in Australia.
As Justice Dowd put it with blunt clarity in R v Sotheren (2001) NSWSC 204:
“A person, in our society, does not have a right not to be photographed.” ... This includes police...
Source: http://4020.net/words/photorights.php
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