Originally Posted by
Clare Prop
ASICS are required by pilots to exercise the privileges of their licence under this regulation
AVIATION TRANSPORT SECURITY REGULATIONS 2005 - REG 6.55 Exercise of privileges of flight crew licences etc (austlii.edu.au)
The reason having third parties in the process can make it take longer is if for example the issuing body requires that you go to Australia Post to have the documents checked, or another third party to do the printing.
Alleging that the issuing bodies are entering fraudulent information into Auscheck is a serious one and something that would get picked up striaght away anyway.
If you are unhappy about having an ASIC then rather than abusing the issuing bodies and their agents go and see your Federal MP. Being belligerent at the ID check raises a lot of red flags so things like swearing and being aggressive or accusing the agent of fraudulent activity without any evidence are not going to help your application.
Other countries often have a separate card for each aerodrome which is a lot more onerous.
There are lots of people who have ASICs that know nothing about aeroplanes, people who do runway works, mow the grass etc
From the link you posted -
(3) For
paragraph (2)(a), a person's
aviation security status check is current at a particular time if:
(a) it was carried out no more than
5 years before that time; or
(b) he or she has requested that a new check be carried out;
or
(c) within the previous
2 years, he or she underwent a
background check for the
issue of an ASIC.
So your aviation security status is valid for 5 years, but we are subjected to background checks every two years and it appears to be at the same level as an initial issue of an ASIC. I'm not concerned with fraud, I'm concerned with red tape and the length of the process. Digging out a citizenship or birth certificate every two years to have it witnessed is red tape at its finest. This has become so onerous that AusCheck can't keep up and we see blow outs in processing time and the expiry date of ASICs marching backwards by a month every two years.
Don't get me wrong, an initial issue of an ASIC has to be thorough but why reinvent the wheel for renewals? How hard is it to figure out if you've had any criminal offences in the last two years? (which, by the way, the law states you must declare)