One of the most pleasing things the Rudd Government has done was to scrap the Howard Government's pseudo national identity card, the Access Card.
The government department set up to facilitate this card, which spent more than $50 million on consultants, administration and advertising, is gone.
At least 18 million Australians can rest easy until the next time this daft idea surfaces.
The estimated $1.178 billion required to roll-out the Access Card will now stay in government coffers to be spent on other policies.
"Senator Ludwig says the money will boost savings and help fund the government's promises in education and health." A much better idea with positive outcomes.
The Access Card and Consumer Privacy Taskforce discussion papers and received submissions revealed that the card was never going to address the Coalition's favourite over-rated bogeyman, welfare fraud, or the estimated $100 million in annual 'losses' due to Centrelink administrative error.
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