Because Australians are terrified of ‘Australia Cards’ This is slightly tounge in cheek, but not really. Data sharing between government departments isn’t exactly streamlined here And it doesn’t help that every time they introduce laws to improve data sharing they do it badly…Like it’s a threat

SPOILER: Our Tax File Number (TFN) is effectively our Australian ID#. That said, at least we don't have to hand it over to everybody under the sun, like the Seppos do with their SSID, but still... #auspol