Malcolm Roberts (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Labor government are pushing ahead with their globalist control agenda, by introducing the Digital ID Bill 2023. This proposal is nothing more than a 21st century version of Soviet Russia's favourite measure: 'Papers, please!' It's 60 years since Democrat President John F Kennedy correctly identified that the political left were becoming the party of control and the political right were becoming the party fighting for basic freedoms. President Kennedy saw the Albanese government control agenda coming, although he may have been disbelieving of the quality of the politician who would attempt to turn Australia into a digital prison.

For Senator Gallagher to say the myGovID is not compulsory is blatant misinformation. For years, every government touchpoint has required myGovIDs. The director ID legislation, for example, didn't mention myGov, yet every applicant was required to get a myGovID. Two million Australians were coerced into getting a myGovID just so they could continue as a director of their own company. Centrelink won't talk to you without a myGovID. The reason 10 million Australians have a myGovID is that 10 million Australians were coerced into getting one—forced. This week the Senate was going to consider the Identity Verification Services Bill, which would have allowed private companies to hold facial and biometric data for every Australian over 16, facilitating an identity check for routine actions like ATM withdrawals and travel arrangements.

The cash ban bill, which One Nation were instrumental in removing from the Notice Paper in the last parliament, was designed to phase out cash so that electronic purchases would be the only payment option, and so that facial recognition could be linked to every significant transaction. Control is the garment being weaved by multiple pieces of legislation across successive governments. It is liberty dying the death of a thousand cuts. The digital ID is the final coup de grace.