Shelved report finds ID victims left to fend for themselves

The Wilkins report found there was no system for the restoration of an identity that has been lost or stolen. This remains the case today.

A review by the Home Affairs Department revealed the difficult situation that victims of identify fraud are left to suffer through.The review found that no one agency was in charge of identity administration, maintenance and retirement. It concluded that the identity system was “not logical”, “balkanised” and overly reliant on documents. It lacked any “standards” and was “foundationally weak”.

“It is not a very rigorous standard as it can be satisfied with multiple low-integrity and easy-to-forge documents such as library cards, utility bills, and concession or Medicare cards,” it concluded.The review called for anchoring of identity to a biometric check such as facial recognition. The review noted that the foundations for the identity system were weak, noting that Centrelink had around 700,000 clients who had no formal identity documents.“We think the time is right for the premiers and chief ministers and the prime minister to take a more radical step and set up a National Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages.

“Jurisdictional differences place considerable pressure on law enforcement to determine the offender’s geographic location, which can be within an offshore policing jurisdiction and subsequent responsible policing jurisdiction.”

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