Great...
Howard gave us the pointless and useless ASICs for GA and now Abbot wants to make us prove our innocence if we dare to travel abroad or use the internet.
It won't take long for feature creep to occur and the fingerprinting will be required for domestic air-travel and then the various police agencies will also access that data. (for our protection of course).
Funny., there is always money to be found to scaremonger and keep the subjects frightened (for their protection of course), but there isn't any money for more productive things like preventive-health or long-term infrastructure projects.