It has finally arrived.

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NATIONAL FACIAL RECOGNITION

The Australian government is set to launch its ‘National Driver Licence Facial Recognition Solution’ (NDLFRS) by the end of the year, a decade after the system was first proposed.

The Attorney-General’s Department has revealed it plans to make the NDLFRS “operational” this year, enabling people to use their state or territory driver’s licence to “biometrically verify their identity” through the federal government’s Face Verification Service (FVS).

This integration will allow facial images from both passports and driver’s licences to be used within a single system for biometric verification, both as a means of “secure service access” and “helping the federal government prevent identity fraud”.

I’m sure that’s all it will be used for.. (sarcasm).

“The Australian government is committed to protecting Australians from identity crime,” a spokesperson for the Attorney-General said.

“With agreement from the states and territories, the NDLFRS will enable Australians to use a state or territory driver’s licence to biometrically verify their identity through the FVS. The NDLFRS is expected to be operational in 2025.”

Western Australia will be the first state to make its licence data available for verification by government users through the FVS before the end of 2025, with expansion to private organisations expected by early next year, the Attorney-General confirmed.

The NDLFRS will be housed in a Canberra data centre and will be managed by Fujitsu until June 2026, with the total value of the agreement reaching $50 million.

Yes, Fujitsu will be managing the sensitive driver’s license information of millions – lovely.

The dystopian biometric nightmare cometh.

It’s crazy to think I first started covering this exact push when it began almost a decade ago, through the ups and downs, and now it has finally arrived.

A mass database containing the scanned faces of almost every Australian.

A push that was once called “incompatible with a free society”.

THE ROAD HERE

After years of attempts and planning, the government will finally fulfil their vision of having a national facial recognition database – a signal for exactly where this country stands.

Moves to create such a database began in 2017 when the federal government pushed to form a centralised system of biometric templates from facial images provided by their respective agencies. We covered this here on the website at the time:

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Forming part of the Department of Home Affairs’ Identity Matching Services (IDMS), the system was intended to “…assist agencies, including law enforcement, with sharing and accessing identity information”. But there were many concerns at the time:

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Ultimately, it was rejected by Australia’s Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, who ordered the government back to the drawing board “until citizen rights were protected”.

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It was the first time since 2002 that a parliament committee had recommended new intelligence laws be withdrawn.

Despite this, however, state governments pushed ahead anyway, with territory officials entering into the Intergovernmental Agreement on Identity Matching Services.

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In 2019, Victoria and Tasmania became the first states to submit licence details and photographs to an early system that would eventually interface with the NDLFRS, with South Australia following soon after.

However, this next phase of the rollout was stalled again after the Coalition government was unable to pass the Identity-Matching Services Bill 2019.

But that wouldn’t stop them from continuing to push forward.

Four years later, the incoming Albanese government introduced two bills to parliament — the Identity Verification Services Bill 2023 and the Identity Verification Services (Consequential Amendments) Bill — which both passed by parliament in December 2024.

This would not only provide the legislative basis for the NDLFRS and other verification services, but formulated exactly how Digital ID services will be linked and managed.

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Now we are here, ladies and gentlemen.

This beta model of Australia’s Social Credit System will launch this year, and it is just one program that is possible under new Digital ID legislation.

There will be more to come, and with it, even further control.

What a time to be alongside you all as Australia becomes Orwell’s Oceania before our eyes.

Big Brother is Watching.

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