http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=3770
Peter Chen
"The centralisation of biometric data means that each government transaction we have - getting welfare, being arrested, buying a dog permit, getting your licence, or lodging your building application - can be identified by the authoritative record of your unique identity. This is validation. More powerfully, these unique identifiers can be employed across government to bind all the diverse bureaucratic information systems together. It�s likely that key private sector organisations, such as banks, will require this information also. This is interoperability."
