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National Facial Biometric Matching Capability

To facilitate the secure and accountable sharing of facial images and associated identity information between Commonwealth, State and Territory agencies to promote identity security, national security and law enforcement by funding the establishment and ongoing costs of the Interoperability Hub and National Driver Licence Facial Recognition Solution, to the extent that the measures:

(a) are in connection with online and electronic communications; or

(b) are for the purposes of the defence of the Commonwealth and the States; or

(c) relate to aliens or immigrants; or

(d) relate to a Territory; or

(e) are peculiarly adapted to the government of a nation and cannot otherwise be carried on for the benefit of the nation; or

(f) are undertaken in the exercise of the executive power of the Commonwealth.