Australia Card Bill referred to a Senate committee

On 23 September 1987, the Australian Senate referred the Australia Card Bill to its Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs. The inquiry was to examine the proposed identity system, its costs, privacy safeguards and possible misuse of identification numbers. The committee report records the referral and the later decision to lay the bill aside. The photograph is a 1987 portrait of Prime Minister Bob Hawke. Image: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.