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Acceptable Documents in Australia
Primary Documents
- Passport,
- Driver Licence
- Firearm Licence
Contenders
- Security Licence
police, ADF, employee federal & state identity card
- air crew / seafarer card
pending examination
Driver Licence Security Features
Information below is collected from multiple documents, no promise of accuracy.
State |
Holograms |
Watermarks |
Photo |
Age 1 |
Age 2 |
Comments |
ACT |
6 of CoA |
Center: Bluebell watermark (large blue flower); under words Date of Birth: Bluebell watermark (small light flower); top of card: fine, light rmp in 3 lines: AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY |
left bottom, vertical, running upwards, Unique licence number |
Green L 15.9 |
Red P 17 |
|
NSW |
f&b: repeating CoA; outline of NSW; New South Wales microprinting forward & reverse |
f&b UV: CoA |
unique card number (top) Name (bottom) with New South Wales rmp |
Green L 16 |
Red P 17 |
|
NT |
Silhouette of Australia with NT highlighted |
4 corners: CoA; left of center: large Sturt's Desert Rose (large pink+purple flower) |
|
Ochre L 16 P 16.6 |
Gray lock 16.6 |
|
Q |
(none) |
CoA gold repeated down right side |
top DIRECTOR-GENERAL and DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT; right side vertical: security number |
|
|
|
SA |
Piping Shrike (bird) repeating; DOE small circle bottom left |
criss-cross wavy lines with Piping Shrike, repeating |
includes holograms |
yellow L 16 |
Red P 16.9 |
|
Tas |
repeating CoA |
center: bluegum (flower); wavy Tasmania Australia faint rmp diagonal |
|
Green L 16 |
Red P 17 |
|
Vic |
Inverted triangle with 5 stars, repeated |
swirled lines; left-center Common Heath (flower) |
|
Green L 16 |
Yellow L 16 |
(Probationary Red is 18) |
WA |
repeating CoA |
repeating kangaroos; single UV kangaroo top right? |
|
also Magenta 17 "heavy" |
P 17 |
note that Learners is not a photo-ID in WA; |
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no class/age colour coding in old licence 
- Source:
"Australian iD checking guide" 5th Ed. October 2009
Publisher: NSW Office of Liquor, Gaming and Racing;
- ISBN 978-0-9757638-3-4
OLGR sells the iD guide in a kit with a UV lamp ($10 each kit).
- iD guide also covers PoA cards.
- Nota bene: pictures above are not checked, only ACT image came from government source.
- CoA == Coat of Arms of that State.
- colours typically indicate the classes with a coloured band across top:
- Red is typically (P) Probation/provisonal
- Green or Yellow is typically (L) Learners.
f&b == front & back
- DOE == Diffractive Optical Element
- rmp == repeated microprinting
Secondary Documents
- Birth Certificate (Name + DoB)
- Medicare Card (Name)
- Health Care Card (?)
- Centerlink / DVA
- Tertiary Education Card
- Change of Name certificate
Unacceptable Documents
- Library Card
- Private Health Care Card
Document Statistics
Australian government has formed an Identity working group for government agencies called National Identity Security Strategy or NISS. Following pix extracted from ANAO Performance Audit Report over NISS (ANAO No.29 2009-10, pages 25, 26). These are indicative of the situation in Australia, and do not imply either CAcert or government endorsement for any purpose.
The overall situation in Australia can be seen as this:
In popular business usage, these are the most available documents:
To put the above in context, Australia's estimated resident population was 22 million, end-June-09 (ABS estimate).