Tony Wright if you are reading please educate yourself about why there are 144 endorsements. Over time ASA and its predecessors created these endorsements. There are 26 controlled aerodromes in Australia. None have the same taxiway/runway/apron set up. All have different topography. Some of these aerodromes are in close proximity to each other and some aren't.
Each enroute, arrivals,App/Dep endorsement has been predicated on the amount of knowledge i.e. STARs,SIDs, topography, routes, restricted areas, frequencies, etc that a controller can SAFELY be expected to remember and retain.
To apply to the newspaper industry. You have music reviewers, movie reviewers, finance, political, court, horseracing, football, social pages,aviation?(bwahaha), etc reporters. You are all journalists, why not send Lillian Frank out to cover the boxing and Kevin Sheedy do finance?
It is obvious to those in Aviation that you your Aviation writers on the whole have bugger all idea about Aviation and just fudge it. In Aviation safety areas we don't have the same leeway to stuff things up.