I called on the Treasurer to use his regulatory powers to ensure banks stop removing cash and stop closing branches and ATMs. The Optus outage reminds us that persisting with a single digital identity linked to a digital currency as the only approved payment mechanism is insanity.
How did we get here? The current concept of a ‘digital identity’ was originally dreamed up at a 2015 World Economic Forum conference in collaboration with Accenture, a Fortune Global 500 company.
If the government’s Identification Verification Services Bill passes it will not only open the door to hackers, but it will also offer them the key. A single data file will make identity theft easier. If the government centralises the private data it collects from citizens, on-sells the records to the commercial market while simultaneously mandating the use of digitised personal records within the economy, it will be installing digital socialism. A digital prison no less.
Government and its parasitic billionaire mates want to become the middlemen of all transactions between customers and businesses. One Nation says NO!
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As a servant to the many different people who make up our one Queensland community, I draw attention to yesterday’s Optus outage. Payment terminals using the Optus network went down, requiring businesses to close or accept cash payments. The Optus failure makes a mockery of our arrogant, lying, profit-gouging banks’ campaign to totally remove cash from our society and to remove bank branches. I call on the Treasurer to use his regulatory powers to ensure banks do not remove cash from one more branch, do not close one more branch and do not close one more ATM. Anything less is asking for trouble the next time the internet goes down.
The Optus failure reminds Australia of the insanity of persisting with a single digital identity linked to a digital currency as the only approved payment mechanism. What happens if the government’s Identity Verification Services Bill passes and these myriad identification services are replaced with one central government run digital ID, complete with your biometric data? It will be a hacker’s paradise, with everything hackers need for identity theft and fraud located in a single data file. All that’s missing from the government’s digital ID plans is a massive sign saying, ‘Hack me!’ With digital ID, the government is not protecting us from identity theft; it’s making identity theft easier. If digital ID and digital currency are implemented, the next time Optus or Telstra go down, every Australian’s life stops. There will be no transport, no telephone, no keeping track of children and no buying anything. The government is creating a pinch point every time the internet goes down—a chokehold that comes at a terrible human and economic cost.
The government’s predatory billionaire mates are salivating at the control that digital ID and digital currency will give these parasites. The government and its parasitic billionaire mates aren’t good enough to make the technology work. It’s going to stuff everything up and screw everyday Australians and small businesses. To a digital prison, One Nation says no.
Optus has shown that crash and not fake wire money is our life blood. -( Digital ID is a failure.). Through a Court truth about any crime is obvious. See the future of slavery = digital money and ID
Hi Malcolm, i just watched your video clip and in all honesty i am incredibly proud of you and the work One Nation is doing to fight and hopefully remove any form of mechanisms that we are confronted with that are attempting to control our lives.
I am in Victoria but i follow One Nation : )
CBDCs are nothing less than a Trojan Horse for total control.
The banks want their cut in every transaction and total control over every purchase. Cash is king.
I’m sure glad you are calling out the corrupt policies being imposed by the WEF.
Good on you Malcolm..! I see you’re the only one whose actually doing the “Keep the Bastards honest” …in all
the challenges I see you instigating into the bureaucratic suck. That’s what I’ve always admired about Pauline.
Keep up the good work mate, there are folk like me cheering you on!!
Cheers kev
Yes, perfect example!!
CASH IS THE ONLY WAY. i have been victim to credit card scamming so many times. I have also done my shopping, gone to register to pay via card only to find that the centre internet was down and my phone internet did not work either. So had the embarrassment of having to walk away leaving the full trolley behind.
Unless GUARANTEED 24/7 internet is available then CASH IS KING. What happens in a country store that has unreliable internet?
Digital money costs too much e.g intrest and fees.
I have so many issues with this. I do not like leaving the details of my imprint ID and details that are on my card in case that they can be misused.
If there was any course for a referendum to- yes and no –
( having cash as a monetary policy.) And a must for all banks to have every day.
Freedom for all Australian’s.
A democracy.for All
Not just for politicians – get out of Gail. — No accountability
Thank you Senator.
At some stage, it may be enlightening to ask
‘Who does this government actually protect?’
It’s a clarification question, as everyday Australians, appear to be overlooked, derrided and discarded.
Thanks for your efforts.
Hi Malcolm. Thanks for the work you are doing to bring this matter to the attention of the Australian people. I spent my career in IT and I have witnessed many outages of IT systems similar to that of Optus. The recent incident focuses on the temporary loss of the network by one of the main providers of the country’s telecommunications network. But that’s just one part of the infrastructure. What would be the impact if the core systems required for a centralised digital ID/Currency/Service Provisioning should an errant software ‘bug’ get passed the testing procedure? Would the entire country shut down? I’ve been around these intricate and complicated systems for long enough to realise that simple, undetected errors can have catastrophic consequences. At the moment we are somewhat shielded from this because there is no one system that controls everything. If we do migrate to an all-encompassing mega-control system as proposed by the WEF et al, then surely we are asking for trouble as every system has an inherent failure point.
Sadly Bill Gates has plans to have 50 countries going Digital ID by 2028. Right now there are 11 in that group that are doing it. So far, Australian isn’t one if them.
“Australians are thinking, there are some good members in Government but we can’t figure out what they are good for. Others Australians are thinking, how did these morons find their way through the birth canal.”
Exemption to this are the rare few Pauline Hanson, Malcolm Roberts, Senator Babet, Senator Rennick, just to a name the ones that seem to be on our side.
Thank you Malcolm and the work you put in for “all of us”
We encourage the use of cash in all our transactions & dont rely upon the digital system.
The Light newspaper is a must read for all your followers.