Camp Freddie,
the seppo's basically invented this sport, pioneered sling and belly tanks and medical retrieval etc and yet their ground school is one of the most basic around.
I have the Bristol CD and not a great deal of the ATPL has anything to do with flying helicopters.
Where does a compulsory amount of time in the class room come from? That's crazy. You know it or you don't.
The US air law docs are relatively small and tell you what you can do.
Our air law docs are huge and tell you what you can't do.
So you did the hards yards... we all do somewhere along the line and others will always get breaks which seem unfair.
That's life. get over it, and when your an employer you can secretly discriminate aginst ICAO licenced pilots.