I do not think that is correct
Have a look here
https://www.artslaw.com.au/info-sheets/info-sheet/street-photographers-rights/
or here
https://4020.net/words/photorights.php
To quote from this second site
In Australia most forms of “unauthorised” photography have 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 ruthless clarity in R v Sotheren (2001) NSWSC 204: A person, in our society, does not have a right not to be photographed.