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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 11:15 am Post Subject: Australians go hurtling towards national ID card
The the 1980s when Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke's Labour government talked about introducing a national ID card, tens of thousands of people demonstrated against it. John Howard criticised the plan saying that it was an:
John Howard wrote:
"intrusion of a draconian kind into the day-to-day lives of many people"
Now, it seems, he rather likes the idea... And the threat of terrorism is, naturally, behind the change of heart.
This was a significant point made in the above article:
Quote:
“Of the 25 countries that have been most adversely affected by terrorism since 1986, eighty per cent have national identity cards, one third of which incorporate biometrics. This research was unable to uncover any instance where the presence of an identity card system in those countries was seen as a significant deterrent to terrorist activity.”
I'd like to think that New Zealanders would make a similar strong statement as the Australians of the 80s did, should the idea ever be given serious credence here. Somehow though, I doubt it.
