Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

The digital ID—and I said this before—is not a card, an ID scheme or a new number. It's a voluntary, secure—

I don't think Senator Canavan understands what it actually is. It's about verifying your identity through your own control of the information that you share online to access services. Senator Babet, you are a business owner, a real estate agent. You would know, from dealing with rental properties and things, the amount of information you have to collect to verify potential tenants. This has the opportunity and the potential to significantly reduce the information that you, as a business holder, would hold in your own records about individuals that may rent properties off you. That protects you as a business owner, and it protects tenants of those rental properties. (Time expired)