While the Commonwealth of Australia may insist that its requires an ID card to protect against fraudulent usage of services, I do not accept that this somehow can validate unconstitutional conduct.
Lets have a look at section 116 of the Constitution prohibiting the Commonwealth of Australia to deal with religion. So, if the ID card isn’t going to have a persons religion on it then a person of a certain religion may be ending up in a hospital of a different religion and subjected to medical intervention not permitted by that persons own religion. Yet, if the States themselves were to control matters, as they should, then this kind of problem would not eventuate. This is mere one example to indicate problems that can arise.
As I have set out in my recent book published on 27-5-2007 the WorkChoices legislation is and remains unconstitutional, regardless what the High Court of Australia purported to make of it, but the danger is with an ID card that if you are going for a job interview the Commonwealth of Australia could accidentally or deliberately manipulate the content on a card and you might be unable to get a job at certain businesses. No Government (regardless which political party is in power) can be trusted in that regard not to abuse its powers.
If the Commonwealth of Australia were to insist the ID card then I for one would fight the case again. On 19-7-2006 I succeeded after a 5-year legal battle versus the Federal government lawyers on all constitutional grounds UNCHALLENGED, where I refused to vote as I successfully pursued that Section 245 of the CEA1918 was unconstitutional in that the Commonwealth of Australia had no constitutional powers to force anyone to register and/or to vote, regardless that the High court of Australia previously ruled otherwise. Again, I succeeded then and have no doubt will again.

Personally, I think this should be a big one for LDP to campaign against. Dems are in the senate now, so there obviously in a better position at the moment, but I think LDP needs to take a strong stand on this.

Is this an issue the Democrats are running with? I know very little about the Democrats. What exactly do they stand for? Their front webpage slogan of “Justice, democracy, freedom, diversity, sustainability, accountability” doesnt exactly clarify matters.

However, it seems they are onto a decent policy here.

Is it an LDP issue?

It’s actually a shocking monstrosity of a thing. They say you can opt out of having such a card, however that carries all sorts of issues that will result in exclusion. Please sign or donate towards the campaign.