Australia Scraps National ID Plan

IPU = Imaginary Property Unicorn writes "The proposed Australian 'Access Card', a universal ID that would be required for any Australian wishing to use Medicare, Centrelink, the Child Support Agency, or Veterans' Affairs, has been scrapped by the incoming Rudd Labor Government. The card would have contained an RFID tag with the person's name, date of birth, gender, address, signature, card number, card expiration date, and Medicare number, but there were also provisions to add more personal data later on. It seems that Rudd Labor is not eager to copy the American REAL ID Act."

Comments

Re:Good.

[Anonymous Coward]

Do not copy US ?

Fucking US is waaaaay behind the curve as far as the topic ( national Ids) is concerned.

Whatever Bush is coming up with is NOTHING compared to shit , say Germans have to put up with.

Re:Oh, and proof of this.

[timmarhy]

Are you all stupid in the head?

the world was a VERY different place when bob hawke was in power, comparing comments made 20 years ago to today's climate is idiotic in the extreme.

and don't fucking kid yourselfs, Rudd is just as big of a snake. Knowing labor they have scraped the "national ID" so they can bring in their own "mega national ID". Where the liberals are all about less government, labor are all about MORE government... take a guess which one is going love the idea of more power that a national ID card will bring. It's standard for the incoming government to dump all the old governments idea's anyway, i don't see what your all so excited about. get back to me in 12 months and then we will see.

oh and john howard stayed in power for so long because he was a smart motherfucker who got rid of the 80 billion in national debt and 12% interest rates that labor left us with last time. he also got us back our AAA credit rating, brought the economy out of recession and instigated much needed tax reform.

all you lefty tree huggers love the idea of labor because they try to please everyone, but in the real world when you try to please everyone you end up pleasing no one and making a big screw up of everything. that's what a labor government brings to the table.