Great post, I was wondering this a while back and tried to troll the CASA website...too, but its not easy when you are out of the system.
Thanks for your help unhinged, it was highly unhelpful and very spiteful... let me hope you arent taking that personality to work as a professional pilot!
I last used my Australian ATPL in 1997, good that its still easy to get it back to current status should I ever be mad enough to ever want to deal with CASA again (read extremely unlikely).