As much as the Government attempts to downplay the importance of introducing a single central digital identifier for all Australians, the truth is that this legislation is the most significant I’ve encountered during my time in the Senate.
t’s the glue that holds together the digital control agenda by which every Australian will be controlled, corralled, exploited and then gagged when they speak or act in opposition.
The government knows Digital ID will be compulsory by the device of preventing access to government services, banking services, air travel and major purchases for any Australian who does not have a Digital ID.
The Digital ID will, in effect, create a live data file of your movements, purchases, accounts and associates containing reference to every piece of data being held in the private and government sector as a first step in a wider agenda. Tech giants have been building huge data files on every Australian for years.
Those huge data files that contain every website you visited, every post you made on their social media, everything you have ever bought online. Keywords scanned from conversations overheard by Siri and Alexa in your home are now unmasked.
Until now, that data was anonymised using a unique identifier rather than name and address, which has always been there as well. However, tech companies were not allowed to use it or share data with others that included the person’s name and address. Until Now.
Look for the tech giants to ask for your Digital ID as a requirement of using their service. The point of that exercise is to ensure they put the right name on the right data treasure trove.
This is why the Liberal Party have moved amendments to the Digital ID Bill to bring private corporations into this roll out earlier. All those treasure troves of data worth billions, trillions, that have been accumulated for years illegally, by retailers, tech and data companies – all that unrealised profit just sitting there has been too much of a temptation for the Liberal Nationals to resist and is now joined with Labor in pushing Digital ID.
There will be no escape from the digital ID.
Australians now have a digital version of “papers please” and Australians will never be the same.
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Life is about to change for every Australian. As much as Senator Gallagher seeks to downplay the significance of introducing one central digital identifier for each and every Australian, the reality is that this is the most significant legislation I’ve seen in my time in the Senate. It’s the glue that holds together the digital control agenda by which every Australian will be controlled, corralled, exploited and then gagged when they speak or act in opposition.
The Digital ID Bill will be misused because this bill is written to be misused. The government knows that digital ID will be compulsory by the device of preventing access to government services, banking services, air travel and major purchases for any Australian who does not have a digital ID. The digital ID will, in effect, create a live data file of your movements, purchases, accounts and associates, containing reference to every piece of data being held in the private and government sector as the first step in a wider agenda. Google, Facebook and other tech giants have been building huge data files on every Australian for years. Those huge data files contain every website you’ve visited, every post you made on their social media and everything you have ever bought online, and the keyword scan from conversations overheard by Siri and Alexa in your home are now unmasked.
Until now, that data was anonymised using a unique identifier, rather than name and address, which has always been there as well. However, tech companies were not allowed to use it or to share data with others that included a person’s name and address—until now. Look for the tech giants to ask for your digital ID as a requirement of using their service. The point of that exercise is to ensure they put the right name on the right data treasure trove. It’s not just the tech giants heading into the data gold rush. Those reward cards you scan at the checkout have included terms and conditions to allow Coles and Woolies to make a record of every purchase you have made for years. This is why the Liberal Party has moved amendments to the Digital ID Bill to bring private corporations into this rollout earlier. All those treasure troves of data worth billions or trillions have accumulated for years illegally, and all that unrealised profit just sitting there has been too much of a temptation for the Liberals and Nationals to resist, and they have now joined with Labor in pushing digital ID.
Those listening at home may be wondering how an individual could avoid being drawn into this net of data trading and surveillance. The simple answer is: you can’t. This Labor government has already passed the Identity Verification Services Bill, which makes it legal for every Australian’s photo or video likeness to be used to verify that person against the database containing their biometric data. Biometric data simply means a digital representation of your face that allows for instantaneous electronic matching. Just days after that bill passed, the first thing the government did was to send an email to people with a myGov ID to update their myGov record by providing a facial scan on their phone. Yes, that really happened. This is what these people are doing to you. This is not voluntary.
Ten million Australians have a myGov ID. Most of those were forced into it to access Centrelink benefits. It’s cruel. There are another two million Australians who were forced to get a myGov ID to register as a company director, despite the director identity enabling legislation not even mentioning myGov. The government did it anyway! The database the government is using for data surveillance is the national driver’s licence database which has 17 million records—everyone who has, or has had, a driver’s licence. This government doesn’t need an excuse to further digital control for everyday Australians. Socialists love control. Socialism needs control. For socialism to exist, there must be control. The government knows control will be used by government to identify people who say mean things on social media to speed up enforcement of our new laws against saying home truths to crazy or dishonest people. No hiding behind anonymous accounts or false addresses; you can expect a knock on your door at home, work or school, as we’re seeing happening in other countries with digital identity already in place. Only by being able to keep tabs on citizens 24/7 can the government possibly hope to introduce the wealth heist they have planned.
Anyone viewing this topic for the first time can see the detail of what I’m talking about on my website. The committee report on the digital ID bill was a travesty. The committee made a recommendation to pass the bill which was simply not supported by the evidence they received during the inquiry. Witness after witness testified that this rancid evil bill failed to protect privacy, failed to establish that the ID would be voluntary, failed on human rights grounds and failed on technical grounds. One blackout, and the whole thing comes crashing down. Yet all these valid criticisms from leading organisations who, unlike the government, know what they’re talking about were simply ignored.
The slowly boiling frog will experience things in the future that would be considered unimaginable today.
There is only one Way out.
well done Malcom you are doing a fantastic job
The illness is bad, as most of us know already, but what is the solution? Is easy to talk about problems these days but no one is giving solutions, everything has to be bad, so this is the way we live in this century!
Have signed and shared your petition against this idiotic bill. Next election will have it repealed surely? Thanks for your efforts to stop it. We are ashamed of those politicians who were on paid large amounts of money to vote for it, eg Lambie
Digital ID is BS. It must be crushed
Australia has become a Communist country where every piece of information will be used for nefarious reasons. Facial recognition will be installed next on every street corner.
It is my fervent hope that Australians will reject/protest the Digital I.D. A worldwide panopticon is not a world worth living in.
You’re right! Let’s go to Russia and leave the communist behind! hahaha!
Digital ID I am totally horrified as to where we are going with this and it needs to be stopped
If the population of this country don’t have
the majority and strength to prevent this happening all I can say is ,,, wallow in it
Trouble is young people today
are like pre schoolers at a birthday party in adult bodies .
Malcolm, put you face on TV and tell the people. I can’t believe the ABC are not all over ID
Since almost all Australian government agencies and large semi-state corporations chose IT equipment and software on the basis of kickbacks, bribes, and which vendors supply the greatest amount of cocaine and prostitutes (really, attend an “after party” at an Australian IT conference)
their systems are totally insecure and often “prehacked”.
If you think Australians and “law enforcement” had a problem with ID theft before, this law guarantees total chaos.
Dear Senator,
1984 is coming. We have been betrayed by Libs and Labour, who should be protecting us. Yet what are most Australians doing-nothing. Doubt they have considered the consequences. In the hands of a benign government, no worries. However, we’ve seen the anti PM Albanese, fail thepublic with ongoing Aboriginal funding on mostly uselssprojects. What happens if he decides to go after Christians, Heaven forbid? What is needed is removal of this Govt, at the earliest.
Sincerely,
One pissed off Vet!
Russ
They are globalist puppets and are following the prescription from the WEF. Australia is not a democracy at all. They pretend it is by having BS referendum like the Voice which was purely a distraction to push through bills, laws and legislation to take away our democratic rights. Was there any discussion at all if the Australian people wanted digital ID? NO! They never mentioned a thing about it in the general public eye and with MSM in lockstep with these globalists the majority of Australians have no idea what is upon them. Only those of us that are awake knew this was coming and we got called conspiracy theorists but it was happening right in front of us, hidden in plain sight! The question is, what are we going to do about it? The answer is simple but unfortunately will not happen. Australians need to stand up in unison and say NO but unfortunately recent history shows us that most Australians are in a trance of mass hypnosis walking blindly into dystopia.
They are all jibby jab, and their brain; fried!
Where was the Lower House vote before Senate?
With something as important as this – there should have a public vote as to whether they want it or not.
As a heads up – Channel 9 did a poll on this very subject and the final result was 92% that said NO!
What part of NO didn’t albosleazy not understand?
He’s dead meat to many of my family and friends – we will not be voting for him.
The next brainless klutz that takes over the PM position had also better watch his/her back because right now the public is really angry at Albo for selling us down the river with Mines, Digital ID, Lockdowns, Jabs, and in a nutshell MURDER.
He has been ordered and expected to carry out the plan of the great reset by the so called Elitist. There names are now known and as for our sleaze bag lot in Canberra – we now know the names of all who have been bought by the same Elitists when they voted for the Digital ID. They too will have to watch their backs.
I would not be surprised if Albo and his extended family cops it from what I have overheard.
Hi Malcolm,
Could you please tell me why this Bill went through the Senate first? My understanding is that a Bill is submitted/created by the House of Representatives first and then the Senate as a House of Review.
Thank you.
Wilson Boyd.
How in all conscience can the Liberals support such an invasive and controlling legislation? They are as bad as he crooked lefty Labor party. I won’t vote for them again!
Unfortunately no one in government wants to stop this. They want total control and this is how you get it. No more elections for the communist pollies because they will already know your vote from all the data they have already collected from you. COVID was a test to see how many people would stand up to tyrants. We failed miserably
We need cash at all times and not a digital system. Nazi Germany did the wrong thing in introducing the stupid citizens or identity papers for every German citizen way back in the early 1930’s where every German person had to carry their personal identity papers on them as if they were tagged cattle or sheep and produce them when demanded by the police !
The ‘AUSTRALIA CARD’ had to have a Referundum back when… the ’80s ?….and was SOUNDLY DEFEATED.
How is it possible that an ID Card can just eventuate without public input ?
Absolutely outrageous, Malcolm! Honestly, why would anybody vote for the Uniparty. They’re despicable and out of control.
Letter to Spectator re uncontrolled Immigration:
Massive migration – at times for good reason – over several centuries to Eastern Europe, the U.S., Israel and elsewhere, spawned the Communist-Socialist-Bolshevik subversive narrative, which has undermined the U.S., Europe, Britain, Israel – strangling the West’s advance. Via targeted immigration, infiltration, compromisation of the West’s Institutions, broadly based on principles derived from its Judeo Christian heritage, the “whiteanters” have deliberately fostered internal division. Witness the “divisive mess” of the mighty U.S. (“The Naked Capitalist” – “The Iron Curtain Over America” – “Tragedy and Hope”)
Socialism was never a genuine British (Australian) labour movement, but rather “a tool of foreign intrigue – with an Alien Influence behind it.” (British Historian Nesta Webster)
Solzhenitsyn – “Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit — ,” “To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.”
Are we to bow to this “Bolshevization (Socialisation-Communisation) of the West (Australia) By Stealth” process, which has subverted Europe, Britain, the U.S., for over 2 centuries, Australia for close on a century and now uses Democracy against us, imposing its de-stabilizing agenda?
Witness the current primarily Socialist-Left set of imposed/planned agendas – “Discrimination (v Religious Freedom) -Political Correctness-HREO-Racial Vilification-Climate Change/ESG-COVID Mandates-Cancel Culture-IR Bills-Bank Bail In-Bank Closures – plus coming unwarranted Digital ID-misinformation/disinformation-CBDC’s (Cashless)-UN/WHO Pandemic Treaty (surrender sovereign control of health) etc. etc., effectively tightening the straps on our WESTERN CONTROL STRAIGHT-JACKET.
The Digital ID Bill was guillotined through Parliament yesterday – “no questions of Ministers” – we rejected the Australia Card for seemingly much less privacy invasion. “Digital ID” – the latest “COVID Passport”; welcome to “Socialism Incorporated”: “Reform from the top down – No Dissent Allowable – the Communist Way (Gorbachev).
Best Wishes Bill Webster
With this trash of Digital ID, Australia can kiss democracy goodbye. This is the sort of b/s that China,Russia and other dictatorships use to control their populations. It is also why there are so many migrants/boat people wanting to come to a supposedly free and once welcoming Australia. What is wrong with these ridiculous oligarchs that we have stupidly elected to our parliaments. Why have so many lately become so fearful of people questioning them, as we should. We don’t want these type of people in our governments, introducing their woke agendas to force us to obey them as if they were God himself.
I forgot that John Howard tried this digital caper with the Australia Card when he was in office. It never went through because Australia objected vigorously and he not only lost government but lost his seat too. I expect the same will happen if any party in Parliament dares to suggest it again. Australians do not like to be forced to reveal everything they do, especially if its none of the government’s business.
Why change a perfect way of living. Maybe it for those with millions of dollars
Don’t want the digital id
Digital ID is a massive intrusion upon our civil rights, no-one in their right mind could want this, it is also another step needed toward a cashless society.
Going cashless means that authorities will be able to access and even control your money.
You are doing a great job Senator Roberts.
right on once again Malcom, i wish we could have of your kind here in Quebec Canada
Go for a protest