Campaigns

ID Cards

This is an index-page listing the various campaigns relating to a wide array of privacy-intrusive multi-purpose identification schemes that governments are seeking to foist on Australians.

The Campaigns

• Commonwealth
  • Single Sign-On to Australian Government Services (initially Human Services Portal, now AGOSP, since January 2007)
  • National Document Verification Service project (DVS) (since April 2005)
  • The 'Access Card' a.k.a. 'Human Services Access card'/ 'Smart card'/ 'Consumer card', but depicted throughout by APF as a national id scheme (2006-07, defeated)
  • Australia Card Mark II (2005-06, project superseded)
  • A Human Services Card (2005-06, project superseded)
  • The Medicare Smartcard (2004-06, collapsed)
  • The 'Australia Card' Proposal (1985-87, defeated)
• State
  • The NSW Photo ID card (since December 2004, lapsed?)
  • The Queensland Driver’s Licence (since November 2003, un-funded?)

Resources

• National Identification Schemes Generally
• The 'Australia Card' Proposal, 1985-87
• The U.K. ID Card Proposal, 2004-
• The U.S.A.
• Elsewhere in the World

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