We are trapped in the Orwellian world of government.
There is a bureaucracy with 'responsibility' for aviation security. There is a bureaucracy that makes money out of police checks. There is a business that makes money out of issuing ASICs.
Somebody has to be their plaything and revenue stream.
I had considered providing a submission to the review of aviation security, but then I realised that if I pointed out the various practical scenarios that demonstrated why the ASIC system is little more than an expensive and easily-avoided facade, the only likely outcome would be further inconvenience and costs to me and other law-abiding citizens rather than the people who are hell-bent on doing harm.
The 2-yearly inconvenience and expense - even under the new system - pales into insignificance compared with what we'd pay if it weren't a facade.