The one hour flight time for the AFR and the little quiz that some offer is arguably a waste of time and purely a box-ticking exercise.
Maybe CASA should be having a chat to any instructor that is merely ticking boxes.
Maybe I’ve been doing mine with the wrong operators...
I reckon you probably are.
The Flight Review can also (and should) be a training exercise. An opportunity for the candidate to ask 'WTF goes on in these Class D volumes?' or 'can you run through some radio calls with me' or 'I do a regular flight from Glen Innes to Taree but the track I take is a pain in the arse, your thoughts?' But more often than not you get a phone call saying 'how much will a Flight Review cost me??'
It doesn't matter what class of airspace you are in, as a pilot, it's your responsibility to not hit
anything, regardless of any thing a controller says to you or tells you what to do.