ID checks for domestic pax?

[Fiches Mouser]

As I posted on the OT thread, QF776 had an ID check last night with the police in the aerobridges after boarding passes being scanned.

They pre announced it in the lounge too.

Wasn't any inconvenience at all to me, but quite a few people took umbridge with it thus delaying the rest of us.

Did this really happen? Surely this is a big deal! I had no idea it was actually happening.

Pretty sure there's no legal obligation to prove your identity if (un?)lawfully stopped on the street by police, so really interesting this is being accepted.

 

[wandering_fred]

Did this really happen? Surely this is a big deal! I had no idea it was actually happening.

Pretty sure there's no legal obligation to prove your identity if (un?)lawfully stopped on the street by police, so really interesting this is being accepted.

Given that it is an offence to fly using other than your own name, this would be no less legal than a booze bus stop. No discrimination.

Remember in the USA it is likely everyone could be successfully charged with at least three offences a day. I suspect no difference to that rule of thumb in Australia.

Perhaps (un)happy wandering?

Fred

 

[Milefest]

Pretty sure there's no legal obligation to prove your identity if (un?)lawfully stopped on the street by police, so really interesting this is being accepted.

That's an interesting point, I thought you were only required to provide your name and address? I wouldn't think you are required produce any physical form of ID.

But even then police powers are restricted when it comes to requesting a person's identity.

 

[esseeeayeenn]

Given that it is an offence to fly using other than your own name, this would be no less legal than a booze bus stop. No discrimination.

Remember in the USA it is likely everyone could be successfully charged with at least three offences a day. I suspect no difference to that rule of thumb in Australia.

Perhaps (un)happy wandering?

Fred

Actually booze buses are authorised by specific legislation.
And licence checks are allowed when you are in the act of driving a car as part of the Road Traffic Act or local equivalent.
Go back to the article posted by the OP. In it the AFP acknowledge that they do NOT have the power to conduct random ID checks.
They can only ask for ID if they have grounds for a reasonable suspicious that someone has committed an offence.