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Wave Goodbye to Another Set of Freedoms With the New Digital ID

In the 1980s, Australians fought hard against a similar national ID program, what has changed since then?
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Wave Goodbye to Another Set of Freedoms With the New Digital ID
An X5 group representative demonstrates a facial recognition payment system at a self-checkout machine in in Moscow, Russia, on March 9, 2021. Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images
Graham Young
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“Papers please” used to be the ostinato of totalitarian systems, at least in the movies.

Graham Young
Graham Young
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Graham Young is the executive director of the Australian Institute for Progress. He is the editor and founder of OnlineOpinion.com.au and has conducted qualitative polling on Australian politics since 2001. Mr. Young has contributed to The Australian newspaper, The Australian Financial Review, and is a regular on ABC Radio Brisbane.
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