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View Poll Results: Do we need an Australian ID Card
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Thread: The Australian ID Card
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16th January 2006, 08:45 PM #16
Originally Posted by Grunt
Blowin in the Wind
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16th January 2006, 08:49 PM #17
Originally Posted by redwood
If at first you don't succeed, give something else a go. Life is far too short to waste time trying.
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16th January 2006, 08:57 PM #18
Originally Posted by Gumby
but did they claim their frequent flyer pointsBlowin in the Wind
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16th January 2006, 08:59 PM #19
Don't get me started..
Originally Posted by redwood
You'd puke if I told you where the lost money eventually ends up and what happens with it in the interim.:mad:
If you never made a mistake, you never made anything!
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16th January 2006, 09:17 PM #20
What will the OZ card do that the current tax file number system cant do??
it wont stop terrorists. The hijackers from 9/11 used their own names and identity papers.
Until someone can tell me how this small peice of plastic will legitamatly stop terrorism im against.
Lets put it bluntly, if someone is going to fly a 747 into a building or blow them selves up with explosives, How is an idenity card going to stop them???.I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
My Other Toys
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16th January 2006, 09:26 PM #21
Originally Posted by Shedhand
Blowin in the Wind
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16th January 2006, 10:29 PM #22
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16th January 2006, 10:42 PM #23
Then the best reason for it is Peter Garrett is against it
Well, maybe not the best reason, but a quite good one.Ashore
The trouble with life is there's no background music.
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16th January 2006, 11:24 PM #24
Originally Posted by AlexS
Bruce C.
catchy catchphrase needed here, apply in writing to the above .
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16th January 2006, 11:30 PM #25
Besides it's really easy to identify terrorists, everyone know they drive Pajeros or VW Kombis'.
Seriously why does the government think terrorists will not be legit aussie citizens, what we don't have enough disaffected marginalised people of our own all too willing to listen and get brainwashed by any fix it quick with violence propaganda marchant, that we'd have to import some illegal ones.
Bruce C.
catchy catchphrase needed here, apply in writing to the above .
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16th January 2006, 11:32 PM #26
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A national ID card will not stop terrorism. It didn't stop the London attacks either. Even if the TFN is included it will not stop tax evasion, which is different from the legal tax avoidance, and it will cost billions and erode our freedoms.
Whilst the current government might be genuinely concerned about terrorism and think it will help in its fight against it, a future government will use it to suppress our already limited freedom.
Introducing a national ID card is a bit like changing our constitution. If the government is for it a thinking person would automatically reject it. Can't trust the pollies in that regard whatever their colour or party.
Peter.
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17th January 2006, 08:03 AM #27
Licences have been mentioned here a few times. Lets hope the ID card is administered a bit better than licences, I just renewed my Drivers licence for free by handing over my Pension Card.
Great, they just renewed a heavy vehicle drivers licence for a bloke on a Disability pension.
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17th January 2006, 08:25 AM #28
I didn't read this thread as specifically due to terrorism, but more as a sign of the times.
I agree with being able to clearly identify an individual if necessary, whether it be for police reasons, taxation or to claim benefits. Fingerprint/photo IDs embedded in chips in the cards (like the new passports) may help.
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17th January 2006, 08:35 AM #29
maybe we should just get ear tags like cattle ... MOOOO!!
Brett
Only Robinson Crusoe could get everything done by Friday!
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17th January 2006, 08:40 AM #30
The people who they want to catch can easily replicate or obtain a fake id anyway.
Next time you sign a credit card invoice see if the person actually checks your signature anyway.
All the card debate will do is waste more money, good for those who will make the money producing them etc.
And while it's in the headlines watch all the sneaky things that the gov gets through un-noticed.
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