You have to remember that Australian aviation is like Australian wildlife, it has developed differently and is inhabited by creatures generally pretty venomous.
Major,
Sadly, I am forced to agree with you.
About the only statement that Mick Toller made, when he was CEO of CASA, with which I agree, was a statement to the effect:
"Australia is an aviation Galapagos, with all sort of strange mutations developing in splendid isolation".
The Australian aviation laws are as good an example as you can get, by word count or volume, they are incontestably the world's "biggest and best" , and they mean whatever your CASA FOI or AWI wants them to mean.
Anal in the extreme. The reason there are pages of arguments about the meanings of Australia regulations on the Australian forums is not because of deficiencies in Australian Ops. Manuals in general, but because of the conflicts, contradictions and complexity of Australian "regulation".
Tootle pip!!