Driver Licences

The regulation of driver licensing is the responsibility of individual state and territory governments.

The Registration and Licensing Task Force is represented by all jurisdictions who consider licensing practices across Australia with a common goal to develop and promote national policies and procedures to harmonise driver licensing schemes and ensure the seamless transfer of driver licences across jurisdictional borders.

The Task Force promotes improved practice in driver licensing across all jurisdictions and facilitates collaboration between jurisdictions to ensure best practice is consistently implemented. Whilst a driver’s licence is not intended to be an identity document it is widely recognised and used in the community for this purpose. The Registration and Licensing Task Force works to ensure the security and integrity of the driver licence card is upheld through improving business innovations such as the Document Verification Service, national best practice customer enrolment frameworks and biometric identifiers such as facial recognition.

Driver licensing projects 2011-12:

RS1678 Evaluating Australia’s Demerit Point Scheme in Terms of its National Road Safety Benefits (ATC)
RS1679 Multijurisdictional Image Sharing – Technical Solution Development and Analysis
RS1688 Development of a National Indigenous Licensing Resource
RS1689 National arrangements for managing a pending licence sanction
RS1694 Standard data elements for photo cards issued by Australian road agencies
RS1704 Developing measures to reduce the incidence of unlicensed driving

Program Manager:

Julie Holmes
Director, Registration and Licensing
Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure South Australia

Program Support:

Jane Fitzgerald
Project Manager for Registration and Licensing
Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure South Australia
GPO Box 1533
Adelaide SA 5001
Phone: +61 8 8343 2542
Fax: +61 8 8343 2977
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