A serious flaw with the proposed ID card system appears to have been overlooked.

Most of the chatter about this suits it's proponents but consider this;

The 'ID Card' is a de-facto license-to-inhabit,in this case Australia. Why do governments introduce licensing schemes? To allow them to excersise a high level of control over the licensee. Look at drivers licenses or toxic waste disposal, real estate agents...,whatever. Should any citizen come into dispute or conflict with any agency of government that agency will have the power to withdraw or limit the term of your license and therefore your access to; travel, bank accounts and potentially all social instutions. Perhaps there will be point scheme and at some point(When you have 10 points) you will experience a form of home detention when you lose your license for say 3 months...? These restrictions may be lifted when or if matters are settled (In who's favour?) This would certainly be a great convienience to governments (No more conpromising) but at a cost most informed people would regard as an unacceptable.

In the Netherlands, where a similar scheme has been in operation for a few years, the government has now experienced a windfall in revenue from fines imposed on people being out in public without their ID Cards. To evaluate the governments concern for people's welfare balanced against revenue collection just examine the conduct of the NSW government's dependence on the workingman's gameing loses.Consider also the enthusuasm for restrictive parking limits as opposed to the proper provision of public parking. Politicans are put into office by the public, they are funded by the public and therefore their highest duty is to the public. If they are unable to do this what are we paying them for?

Cassandro