Seniors ID

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Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (12:34:54) — My constituency question this week is for the Minister for Housing, Disability and Ageing, and I would like to thank Dylan Cutifani, who has been working in my office, for the question. We spoke to a constituent who is 82 years old, is trying to sell her house and has been told that she requires three forms of ID: her birth certificate, a Medicare card and a licence or passport for photo ID. She has never had a passport and gave up her drivers licence 10 years ago. Since then she has found herself without a valid form of photographic ID. My constituent asks: will the minister consider adding a person’s photo to their senior citizens card, which could then act as a primary source of photo ID?

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Fiona Patten is the founder and leader of the Reason Party and a Member of the Victorian Legislative Council for the Northern Metropolitan region. She came to politics after 20 years of lobbying for the rights of organisations involved in the sexual rights movement – including small businesses, sex workers, HIV/AIDS organisations, adult media and online anti-censorship groups. Before that she was an established independent fashion designer with her own label called Body Politics.

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