Digital ID passes the Australian Parliament
Nation First looks at who voted for the bill in the House of Representatives.
Dear friend,
The time and date of 4.47pm on Thursday, 16 May 2024 may go down in infamy after the events in Parliament House, Canberra today.
Despite the please of tens of thousands of Australians, the Albanese Labor Government voted for the Digital ID Bill.
Find out who voted for it and where to from here, by reading on…
The Albanese Labor Government passed the Digital ID Bill today despite widespread opposition from Australians.
The bill, having already passed the Senate, will now become law and mandate Digital ID across the country.
Labor MPs, the Greens, and several independents supported the bill, while the Liberal National Coalition and two other independents opposed it.
The bill’s passage coincides with recent data breaches and reports of government ransomware attacks, raising concerns about data security.
There are geunine fears the Digital ID system will lead to monitoring and control, similar to China’s Social Credit system.
The bill, having already passed the Senate, will now go on to become law.
And, so, Digital ID will end up being mandated across the country.
One Labor MP — so keen to tell us that the Digital ID Bill made the system voluntary — had something of a Freudian slip at the end of his speech, telling us that the system would be “mandated in this country”.
The end result of the vote was that the Greens sided with Labor as did Tasmanian independent Andrew Wilkie and Teal independents Sophie Scamps, Kylea Tink, Zoe Daniel, Allegra Spender, Monique Ryan, Zali Steggal, and Helen Haines.
Opposing the bill were the Liberal National Coalition, along with independent Dai Le and Rebekha Sharkie.
Bob Katter appears to have been absent for the vote.
(Note: This was the vote in the House of Representatives. The Senate already voted on the matter some weeks ago with the Liberal National Coalition, One Nation, and the United Australia Party all opposing the bill).
The passage of this Digital ID Bill, which will see private data on most if not all Australians centralised into a national system, comes on the same day as a prescription provider reported a mass data breach and a day after an energy and internet provider also reported a data breach.
It has also been reported today that the Australian Government was subject to 14 ransomware attacks in the past year, potentially putting data at risk.
Some government departments don’t even need hackers involved for the unauthorised release of private data. They do it by mistake.
The issue of data security aside, the real concern about this Digital ID system is that it will become a tool for monitoring, manipulation, coercion and control.
We only have to look at Communist China to see how their Social Credit system works to get a picture of where Digital ID could lead us.
All is not lost. Governments come and governments go… and the Albanese Labor Government seems to be doing its utmost to be voted out come the next election.
We can hope that Peter Dutton and the Liberal National Government will repeal the Digital ID Bill given that they voted against it today.
However, there will need to be pressure put on them to do that.
After all, the Digital ID Bill was actually drafted (as the Trusted Digital Identity Bill) under the Morrison Liberal National Government back in 2021.
Until next time, God bless you, your family and nation.
Take care,
George Christensen
George Christensen is a former Australian politician, a Christian, freedom lover, conservative, blogger, podcaster, journalist and theologian. He has been feted by the Epoch Times as a “champion of human rights” and his writings have been praised by Infowars’ Alex Jones as “excellent and informative”.
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Very bad news for all Australians
Mandate is not a law.
It is a contract between two people. If one side doesn't agree with the mandate then it's null and void. I won't be mandated into anything I don't like; and I don't like this digital ID.