After examining my father's old licence from the 70s, it's become apparent that CASA has simply gone full circle and returned to the old way of doing things.
The old licences have these tables where Instructors and Testing Officers were to input endo's, approvals and ratings. So it appears for all the money poured into this process has simply taken us back to a soon-to-be recycled method.
Speaking of 'reform'. Goodbye GFPT, hello RPL... again. We used to have the Restricted Pilot Licence as well, until someone spent a few 10's of million dollars 'improving' the system to the GFPT.
What else can we dredge up and reuse, whilst calling it innovation? Sounds like the fashion industry and Hollywood...