Let’s kill the Australian identity card zombie once and for all January 17, 2017 11.33am AEDT AuthorBruce Baer Arnold Assistant Professor, School of Law, University of Canberra Some policies are like zombies – toxic, frightening, defiantly unkillable. They reappear, even though they aren’t useful and aren’t pretty. Pauline Hanson’s call for a national identity card is one of those zombies.The One Nation leader has been calling for a networked biometric card for people who interact with the national government. Put simply, that is most citizens. The card will supposedly significantly reduce fraud by non-citizens who are resident in Australia. Statements about the card are confusing. Presumably it is meant also to reduce entitlement fraud by citizens – a focus of the current Centrelink debacle – and provide definitive proof of identity in dealing with state or local government and the private sector. Past enthusiasts for a national identity card, claiming “if you have done nothing...
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