For those who are unaware, Australia is very close to mandating a government-controlled digital ID to access government services (you already need one if you have a registered business, or to collect lottery winnings, for example), and to becoming fully cashless. This is very much a part of all that.

"Won't someone think of the children" has always been the playbook of authoritarians, left and right. I can't believe how quickly people here (i.e. in Straya) have forgotten, or have willfully chosen to ignore, that fact...