Pharcarnell,
Not $200 I hope (or am I still in a fool's paradise)!
Scary thought if they do charge that:
- First of all, CASA charges you $200 for this photo licence.
- Then when the security clearance thing comes in, whenever that is, if ever, they'd charge you another $200 (maybe they'd introduce this ASAP so that they can make some money
).
Considering there seem to be somewhere in the region of 15,000 licence holders, and if all of them get the licence re-issued as photo one and then the security cleared one, that's
$6,000,000 for them!
Oh alright, deduct $40 or whatever it costs for the actual security clearance - that still leaves CASA with $5,400,000.
I should damn well hope that they don't charge THAT much for the replacement (I can understand initial issue fees but for admin stuff that takes 10 min to do ... oh no!).
P.S. On introduction of photo licence, I can imagine some wankas using it as a night-club entry ID.
