Captain Dart
As an Oz ATC, we just apply what we are told to apply (or should) if you have an issue with it, talk to your Flight Ops department.
It is also frustrating to us. With those pilots who have English as a first language we know it is teaching them to suck eggs, but for those whose English is a bit second rate we are just covering our backside.
It is not unusual to tell the next controlling sector to watch XXX because even though XXX has read everything back correctly we have little faith that XXX will actually do what we have instructed them to do.
It is sometimes 'embarrasing' for us to get our 'extraneous' readbacks off pilots that we know are not in any doubt about what we have instructed them to do. But when we have the level of monitoring that we do, and back office people are looking over your shoulder constantly, a controller does not have the room to assign a good pilot or dodgy pilot rating.
Don't assign us a good or dodgy worldwide rating either, we play the cards we are dealt. Otherwise it is a quiet chat in a back office.
Do you have this problem with ex-Oz ATCs working overseas. Don't think just the good ones have pissed off OS, it's just that they work in a more realistic environment.