Early Edition with Kate Hawkesby

On its own, you wonder what’s the point of moving in this direction when we have perfectly good drivers licences in our back pockets. But it’s not really about the driver’s licence, it's about creating an app like NSW has, which allows people to do a whole lot of government related transactions simply and easily from their phones.    Things like: car registrations, a WOF, paying road user chargers, road tolls, Inland Revenue and tax payments, dealing with superannuation and benefit payments – maybe even paying parking tickets. The lot!   Which makes sense. We deal with so much of this online already, why not put in an ‘all-in-one’ place. NSW rolled out the digital drivers licence  in 2019 and today over 80% of drivers use their licence via the app.   It's good to see the Minister acknowledge we need to have choice around this. A digital licence  system can’t exclude those who don’t have access to the necessary technology or simply prefer to keep things offline. Groups like the el