New South Wales will be putting some licences on smartphones from 2016.
The first licences to be made available digitally will be those for recreational fishing, responsible service of alcohol and conduct of gambling licenses, NSW minister for Finance, Services and Property Dominic Perrottet announced on Wednesday.
The drivers license, the one that assumedly everyone wants, will be the last to digitise. It's set to come around in 2018.
"In 2015 our citizens are mobile and digital and that’s where the government should be too," said Mr Perrottet in an official statement. "The introduction of the NSW Digital Licence will mean the days of multiple plastic cards clogging up precious wallet-space are numbered."
Real, physical licenses will still be available, but things like always needing your license in your wallet for driving could soon be a thing of the past. It would also mean renewing your licence without having to wait for hours in purgatory a physical line.
"This technology will allow our citizens to display, apply, update and renew their licences using their smartphone, with real time information also available," Perrottet said at a conference on government innovation on Wednesday.
Despite concerns about the safety of this new licence system, Perrottet said there would be "safeguards" in place to ensure security and validity, but what they are exactly at the moment hasn't been specified.