surrogates

This page considers opposition to the Australia Card, emergence of the Tax File Number scheme as a surrogate national identifier, and initiatives such as the Maritime Safety Card.

It covers

• introduction - why did the Australia Card fail and what does that tell us?
• opposing the Australia Card - differing views of what happened
• from the 1988 Privacy Act to the 2000 Act
• emergence of the Tax File Number scheme - a card by another name?
• banking and finance
• the Kiwi Card - developments across the Tasman
• "a thousand small changes" - bureaucratic creep and corporate indifference

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