when is an I.D. card not an I.D. card? when it's an 'Access' card. : Melbourne Indymedia

good places to start for info on the 'Access' card:

Australian Privacy Foundation
http://www.privacy.org.au/
Electronic Frontiers Australia
http://www.efa.org.au/
Cyberspace Law & Policy Centre [UNSW]
http://www.cyberlawcentre.org

Australian Privacy Foundation flyer:
http://www.privacy.org.au/Media/MR060613_APF_IDcard_diff.pdf

if you want to make it a double-side flyer, print your our own stuff on the other side:

e.g. 1.

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." ~ William Pitt

The Federal 'liberal' Government floated the creation of a national identification scheme during 2005-06, but, realising it would be highly unpopular, re-branded it as a 'Human Services Access card'/'SmartCard'. Knowing this would still meet opposition they released information about the card just before Christmas and then closed submissions from the public mid-January.

John Howard is today promoting what he opposed in 1987:

"... so we have come down against the present ID card, for three fundamental reasons: the first is the enormous invasion of privacy, the second is that the savings and the advantages of it are not great, and thirdly and most importantly, the cost of it ..." ~ John Howard 1987.

"...the Goebbels technique - that is, if one says something that is untrue frequently enough, sooner or later the public will start to believe it. That is what the Government has been doing on every single public issue of any controversy. The ID card issue has been no exception." (The Hon John Howard MP, Australia Card Bill 1986: Second Reading, House of Representatives Hansard, 16 September 1987[3])

"Anybody who seeks to erode the private right must carry the onus of proving that there is an overwhelming public benefit in that private right being eroded. It is just not good enough, as this proposal assumes, to say to a government, 'We have a problem. We cannot collect enough tax', or 'We cannot stop enough welfare cheating'. In other words, to use what will become a memorable phrase of the Minister for Transport and Communications (Senator Gareth Evans), we have a systems failure under the present system so we have to turn everybody into a card subject to deal with that systems failure." (The Hon John Howard MP, Australia Card Bill 1986: Second Reading, House of Representatives Hansard, 16 September 1987[4])

In 1987 the Australian people rejected the 'Australia' card at a referendum. This time there will be no referendum, and, if the Federal Government gets its way, as little public scrutiny and debate as possible.

comprehensive analysis online:
Australian Privacy Foundation
http://www.privacy.org.au/
Electronic Frontiers Australia
http://www.efa.org.au/
Cyberspace Law & Policy Centre [UNSW]
http://www.cyberlawcentre.org

SAY NO TO I.D. - GET INVOLVED - for more info ring: John Collins 0404 423 989

e.g. 2.

WHAT'S REALLY BEHIND THE PUSH FOR I.D. CARDS?
PROFIT FOR MULTINATIONALS!

excerpt: ABC Radio National, Background Briefing - 'Getting smart: the Access Card'. 28 January 2007

"The convergence of interest between government and business is an important part of the back story of cards. It's a multi-billion dollar industry, with heavy hitters like Sony and Siemens, and all the big credit card companies, all key players on the Smart Card scene. And for them, national ID cards are the 'Next Big Thing'.

At their recent annual conference in Paris, the Smart Card industry met, and the hot topic was how ID cards could be a new market for one of their main products, SIM cards.

Sharona Coutts (presenter): Derrick Robinson was at the conference. He's a Principal Analyst at IMS Research, an electronic market research firm based in London. He says the existing SIM card market is SATURATED BECAUSE WESTERN COUNTRIES ARE CHOCK FULL OF MOBILE PHONES. SO THE COMPANIES KNOW THE REAL GROWTH AREA IS IN ID CARDS.

Sharona Coutts: So the millions, the tens of millions or hundreds of millions?
Derrick Robinson: Tens of millions for example of UK passports and UK driving licences sitting out there.
Sharona Coutts: These new cards will be expensive, but they also have the potential to generate huge profits.

Derrick Robinson: So the Smart Card community, apart from looking for relief from upgrades of SIM cards, are also looking at two of the potentially very large markets. One is what I would call State, government, public sector, secure identity, passports, driving licences, health service entitlement cards, work permits, that sort of thing, which also could in the fullness of time, rise to numbers like national populations.

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double-side photocopy and hand out in shopping centres, outside politicians offices etc. Last week we did Bentleigh shopping centre, and will be doing various places around southeast suburbs in the next few weeks.

no to I.D. southeast

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