The Australian government’s Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) has spent more than A$200 million over the past five years developing a National Digital ID platform. If successful, the project could streamline commerce, resolve bureaucratic quagmires, and improve national security. The emerging results of the project may give the Australian public cause for concern. https://theconversation.com/austral...t-the-governments-not-talking-about-it-130200
The problem, as in the failed UK Identity Card debacle, was precisely as the link described: you cannot trust the identity providers or some 'orrible central database to keep your data; so the self-sovereign approaches are far better - not for the governments who want to pretend the problems (which will fall on the individual) are nothing to worry about - honest.
