Has everyone who has a difficulty in getting said card actually lodged a complaint via the CASA comlaints e-mail supplied on their web site?. It will no doubt lead to little satisfaction individually, but collectively may give CASA an insight into the total disaster that the issuing procedure has been. (I did say MAY give an insight!).
If you have not lodged a one line compaint, may I encourage you to do so. It will take less than a minute. And whilst it will probably not achieve much, at least the stats will be there for prosperity if something is actually done to look into the scope of problem.
I too applied Nov last year and am 'awaiting for Qantas to contact me' - to Quote CASA help service.
Additionally, would everyone who has applied and not yet got theirs simply acknowledge on this thread - or point me & others onto one that does.