VSA at night. As an ATC our operating procedures as opposed to AIP require us to put you on final assigned the lsalt or rad lsalt at a distance commensurate with that altitude. Further descent is not given until established on an aid usually vasis or glidepath. Certainly AIP states that a VSA can be assigned when straight in etc.
One point, at Sydney when on parallels you should call visual and if you have the runway in sight report that as well to allow the controller to apply the IVA standard. We have continual problems with pilots not making these calls when able.
During the pilots strike we were informed that all the foreign charters were trained and could be treated as an Australian operator. Nothing was more amusing than the ML-SY flight calling at 35nm and being cleared for a DME arrival R07.