Damien

I am a father, technical SCUBA diver, potter, modern Java programmer and Jakarta EE evangelist.

[Damien @dgcooke]

@Ausbobsmit The AFP? They are just a political tool. Remember Angus Taylor with the forged documents fiasco?

[Damien @dgcooke]

@centralratio @MenachemV @Greens Not even you believe that rubbish.

[Damien @dgcooke]

@MenachemV @Greens The greens are correct, there are 10x more aboriginals in Australia than Jews, so why has the aboriginal community not have a special envoy? The uniparty and ON are all drinking the Isreal gravy train, not considering for one second what this even looks like!!

[Rosita Díaz @RositaDaz48]

“This post needs to go viral – NOW!

So, as you might have heard, Australia’s controversial Digital ID bill was recently passed in Federal Parliament.

And no, this isn’t about logging into Medicare “more easily.” This is the wet dream of every power-drunk bureaucrat who’s ever fantasised about tracking what you eat, watch, spend, say – and even think.

Labor rammed it through with help from the Greens and Jacqui Lambie, while the likes of Pauline Hanson, Malcolm Roberts, Matthew Canavan, Ralph Babet, Alex Antic and Gerard Rennick strongly opposed it.

Experts lined up to say it was dangerous. Legal groups shredded it. Privacy advocates screamed. The public wasn’t consulted. But they damn well passed it anyway.

This bill is not about “protecting your identity” – it’s about owning it.

Without a digital ID, you will eventually have no access to a bank account, cash, Centrelink, MyGov, flights, fuel, medication, voting in elections, and even receiving parcels in the mail.

And you can kiss goodbye to ever renting a home, owning a car, using social media, shopping online, accessing the internet at all, having a phone number, and buying groceries.

They say it’s “voluntary” – just like MyGov was “optional” until 10 million Aussies were forced into it just to access basic services.

Just like the COVID-19 vaccine was “optional” until those who resisted found themselves locked out of society for months for not being up-to-date with their boosters.

It’s coercion and blackmail with a friendly smile.

And now that this thing’s been jammed through Parliament, the tech giants are lining up like pigs at a data trough. They’ve already got your search history, your online purchases, your late-night Instagram habits, and every whispered “Hey Siri” or “OK Google.”

Now they get to attach all of that to your real name, address, and government-approved ID. That “anonymous data” you thought was floating harmlessly in the cloud? Not anymore.

Your Woolies reward card is now part of your permanent “consumer profile.” Your YouTube comments? Traceable. That shady dating app you thought was private? Good luck with that when your real ID is stitched to everything you do online.

Privacy’s gone, and it’s not coming back. And let's not pretend this data won't be regularly hacked, leaked, or sold to the highest bidder.

And when the system inevitably fails? One blackout, one outage, one “oops” from some contractor, and you’re digitally locked out of your own life, while some AI bot in a call centre tells you to try turning it off and on again.

The committee that was supposed to scrutinise this bill was a total joke. They ignored almost every expert submission, skipped past glaring privacy failures, human rights concerns, and technical red flags, and still gave it the green light.

It wasn’t an inquiry – it was a rubber stamp for the surveillance state controlled by foreign nations.

Every politician who voted for this has just helped build the scaffolding for digital tyranny. This is the infrastructure for a fully centralised, always-on tracking system.

They’ll say it’s for your safety. They’ll say it’s about efficiency. What they mean is: now they know who you are, where you are, what you’re saying, who you’re saying it to, and how to shut you up when you speak too much truth.

This isn’t progress – it’s control, plain and simple.

What we’re seeing isn’t some harmless upgrade – it’s China-style social credit wrapped in an Aussie flag, and you can bet the CCP is watching on proudly, noticing how we've finally caught up.

#GaryJMatthews

[Damien @dgcooke]

@Ausbobsmit Anyone who says they will roll back the ASIO laws just passed will get my vote, whenever lib and Labor vote together it is never for Australians it is for the political class only.

[Solo Monk @JJKALE2]

ASIO can now "disappear" you.

And if they decide to "reappear" you, you can't tell anyone.

@AlboMP, why the fck are you doing this to your people.

[Damien @dgcooke]

@JJKALE2 @AlboMP This is going to be used against political adversaries. This is the missing link between a functioning democracy and authoritarian regimes.

[Damien @dgcooke]

@AngusTaylorMP See there is nothing genuine about anything you say, I would trust service station sushi over anything you ever say. This is just not true over 800B of that was on the books when the government you were a part of handed to books to Labor.

[Damien @dgcooke]

@DaveSharma God you are a peice of shit Dave, it was the government that you were part of that genetated most of the debt. You dishonest devisive prick.

[Damien @dgcooke]

@AngusTaylorMP You are such a disingenuous divisive man, please explain to every one about the $80M you appear to have sent to the Cayman Islands to what appears to be a family trust. How much of the trillion dollars of debt was attributed to the government you were a minister in?

[Damien @dgcooke]

@PeterMc33205211 @Baumann_Mac Yes Ron, Peter Malinaukas is a zionist too, he is the one that destroyed writers week last year, because he did not like a writer from Palestine being at the event.

[Damien @dgcooke]

@Ausbobsmit What polling have you seen that even suggests that Rob?

[Damien @dgcooke]

@HazelLiaqa4848 Ok you got me, can't think of even one.

[Damien @dgcooke]

@its_meegaan Yes, I do not think it is unusual at all.

[Damien @dgcooke]

@HowardtayHoward @VividProwess I dont hate anything about you or Jews. I was sure I made that abundantly clear. The Government of Isreal and the behaviour of the IDF is another story.

[Damien @dgcooke]

@VividProwess @billmaher This is from Luke 21, it goes on to describe how the Jewish people would be scattered among the nations. If you are a Christian and only reading /quoting from the old testament you are missing the important part of the story.

[Damien @dgcooke]

@VividProwess @billmaher Wrong people wrong time. Maybe you should read the bible now you are fabricating its contents, in 70ad the 2nd temple was destroyed and Jerusalem will be trampled by the gentiles until the time of the gentiles is fulfilled, also in the bible. This is not the Isreal of the bible.

[Damien @dgcooke]

@Eliza5553_ First attraction 2 or 3 but seriously conversation and personality is way more attractive

[Damien @dgcooke]

@farman4x 49

[Damien @dgcooke]

@craigkellyAFEE I have struggled to understand why, while renewables are cheaper, yet my bills are still rising, in my home State of SA we have the highest mix of renewables, still only our bills went up again. The answer is the network costs is the only thing rising, power costs are not.