Report of the Joint Select Committee on an Australia Card
May 1986
© Commonwealth of Australia 1986
ISBN 0 644 04965 0
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| Introduction |
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Terms of Reference
Conduct of inquiry
Explanatory notes
Acknowledgements
Recommendations |
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| Chapter 1: The Australia Card Proposal |
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Introduction
The Government submission
Taxation uses
Taxation benefits
Voluntary compliance
Companion svstem of entities
staff
Benefits and costs of the proposal
Benefits
Costs
Aims of the proposal
(a) Taxation evasion
(b) Social Security fraud
(c) Illegal immigrants
(d) Benefit protection and other areas of Commonwealth expenditure
Organised crime |
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| Chapter 2: Essential Reforms |
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Introduction
Computerised linkage of births, deaths and marriages registers
Establishment of a Data Protection Agency
The introduction of Privacy legislation
Adoption of recommendations proposed by various Parliamentary and Government reports
(a) Improved banking controls
(b) Control of illegal immigration
(c) Administrative reforms
(i) Suspected fraud
(ii) The Department of Education
(d) Monitaring and possible extension of the Department of Social Security identity procedures
(i) Audit findings - overpayments
(ii) Audit findings - identification
Identification of applicants
Pre-grant interviews
Checks with employers
Intra-departmental verification checks
(iii) The use of false birth certificates |
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| Chapter 3: National Identification System |
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Introduction
Data Privacy in Australia
Civil Libertarian Concerns Arising from the Government Proposal
(a) Card will become a compulsory internal passport
(b) Dossier capability
(c) Access to register
(i) Logging
(d) uses
(i) Location
(ii) Research
(iii) Computer matching/data linkage
(e) Display of information on Card |
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| Chapter 4: Alternatives |
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Introduction
Upgrading the Tax File Number
(a) Existing tax file number
(b) Moderate integrity tax file number
(c) High integrity tax file number
Withholding Tax
(a) Dividends and interest
Bearer Bonds
(b) Prescribed Payments System
(c) U.K. system
Upgrading the resources of the AT0
Conclusions and Recommendations |
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| Addendum - Senator Christopher Puplick |
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| Dissenting report of Senator Terry Aulich, Mr Bob Brown MP, and Mr John Brumby MP |
(PDF 878KB) |
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| Appendicies |
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- Appendix 1 - Individuals and organisations who made a written submission to the Committee
- Appendix 2 - Individuals and organisations who appeared before the Committee
- Appendix 3 - Index to witnesses
- Appendix 4 - Letters to the Committee from the Australian Taxation Office
- Appendix 5 - Report of t h e House of Representatives Standing Committee on Expenditure - 'Who Calls Australia Home', November 1985 - List of Recommendations
- Appendix 6 - Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Guidelines on the Protection of Privacy and Transborder Flows of Personal Data (Paris 1981) - Extract
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Committee Secretary
Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services
Department of the Senate
PO Box 6100
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Australia