you have my sympathies mate.
CASA licensing is a total utter cluster****.
about a decade ago I worked with my LAME to build a schedule of experience.
after about 5 years we both independently came to the conclusion that it was an impossibility. the schedule items age out after 4 years.
it matters what not a zot what the quality of the work is, it just matters that the volume of work is completed in the time of a typical apprenticeship.
we gave it all up as a bad joke since it was physically impossible to achieve.
then my LAME died in front of the telly one night.
I have had some, shall we say, rather poor experiences with LAME's since and I maintain my own aircraft. have done for 10 years now.
so I know your problem from the inside.
trouble is that with casa synchronising the regs with easa so that qantas can get rid of all its australian maintenance in favour of cheap east european shops we are all on a hiding to nothing with an idiot regulator doing its best to stuff us all up.
I am told by 3 separate industry sources that qantas is the reason for the easa bollocks.
in an easa synchronised world AME's have absolutely no future unless they can get licenced.
you could not make this any worse if you deliberately tried.
with 40 years experience I can tell you definitively that CASA's incompetence must be put to an end. there is no future otherwise.