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• NSW Tcard company $74m in debt

  The company responsible for rolling out Sydney's troubled Tcard system is $74 million in debt, a NSW parliamentary budget estimates committee has been told.

• 10,800 Myki transactions were faulty

  Victoria's Transport Ticketing Authority has confirmed the state's new Myki public transport smart card system has suffered errors that caused passengers to be overcharged a total of 10,800 times over the past few months.

• Roxon brings back health smart card

  Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon appeared to resurrect the concept over the weekend of using a smart card to deliver a unique e-health identifier to Australians.

• Centrelink frees up ID protocol

  Welfare agency Centrelink has decided to make an internally developed smart card and ID authentication protocol freely available to external organisations.

• Qld picks driver's licence suppliers

  Queensland Transport (QT) has selected three core technology suppliers for the state's chip-embedded drivers' licences, which will use public key infrastructure (PKI) to encrypt drivers' biometric information.

• Ludwig calls for BasicsCard vendors

  Federal Human Services Minister Joe Ludwig today said the government was looking for technology vendors to supply a new version of the Centrelink-issued BasicsCard that allows welfare recipients to access fundamental services.

• Qld Govt signs Placard smartcard deal

  The Queensland Government has signed a contract with Australian card manufacturing company Placard to provide millions of smartcard-based drivers' licences to the state.

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