Capn Bloggs:
Us: 'Noodle Jet xxx request 30 miles right of track due weather'
ATC: 'Noodle Jet xxx cleared 30 miles right of track'
It seems Aussie ATC now requires us to read back the 'cleared 30 miles right of track'.
In the rest of the world the response is just callsign, and if you are a polite pilot, 'thank you'. If the clearance is 'cleared only 20 miles right' or similar, yes, you would read that back because it is different to what you asked for. With ADS and radar I really don't see the big deal.
We don't 'request' takeoff. We just call 'ready'. We read back the takeoff clearance as it is a critical manoeuvre, and we are not in the big sky at that stage.
As an aside some time ago our Flight Safety Department notified me that Australian ATC had 'pinged' one of my flights for having a ONE NAUTICAL MILE
track offset without a clearance (our ops manual states 2 nm is OK without informing ATC). Don't these people have better things to do?