So much law to answer who can do a simple AFR. Half the PPLs will probably just ignore doing one these days and fly anyway. In any case, while they legislate the hell out of pilots nobody is watching where the real safety issues are. The fact that Airservices and the BOM are providing the most safety critical services in Australia in Aviation and yet getting away with murder on notification of delays, weather and provision of basic services. The basic infrastructure is below third world, single runway ops into Melbourne, NDBs as fallback navaids when no new aircraft are fitted with ADFs, etc etc.... Not to mention Melbourne airport is now stonewalling the airport train, which they are paying nothing for, as they want it to be underground, and the taxpayers are funding an above ground rail, because its cheaper.
You just have to laugh at how pathetic Australian aviation has become.