AndrewR, your “simple AOC” proposal leads directly to the utter destruction of what’s left of aviation in Australia. What you are doing is proposing that the requirement for possession of an AOC for flight operations, which is now limited to aviation businesses, be extended to ALL operations, private flight included.
Furthermore you must know that nothing involving bureaucrats remains “standard” for more than a microsecond. This proposal is the same as the dreaded “private AOC’ idea floated and thankfully killed years ago. You should also understand that he’ll will freeze over before CASA unconditionally issue anything.