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AOPA on bollocks ASIC card; & Airport screening at Estimates -   

Courtesy AOPA Oz, via Facebook:

Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association Australia was live.
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ASIC SINGLE ISSUING BODY, GOVT PUSHING ON TO CREATE NEW $30MIL SECURITY BUREAUCRACY
AOPA Australia will be attending a virtual town hall meeting hosted by the Department of Home Affairs, Friday 2nd December from 10am, at which we will be raising concerns and opposing the creation of a central issuing body for the ASIC/MSIC program.

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Some comments in reply:

Terry Manderson
  · 10:41

this has (imho)nothing to do with data protection, if it did the real information security and privacy posture would be to purge said data when it is no longer valid or has expired. (look to GDPR data retention as an example) This speaks solely to the government's digital ID which is a bigger step to overreach and the ASIC is just a small cog in the machine. The government will reject all attempts to see reason, sadly. so now i have to wait 2 months to get my flight review back, 3 months for a medical, and god knows how long to have a red asic just in case i land at a controlled airport.

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David Bennett
  · 8:35

Thanks Ben great job. Keep ‘em honest Mate. This ASIC thing is BS. I have a wallet full of Licenses and a Passport all identify me as me and I’m the same me I was 2 years ago and 2 years prior to that 2 years. In fact I’m me for the last 60 years of my life so why do I need to renew as the old ID has not changed. I need only to pay a renewal fee and update changes like any renewal. Its less heart ache to renew my Pass Port then my ASIC. At least my PP allows me to leave and return to my country. Let’s use that document its better than an ASIC because its used to ID me. Bureaucrat’s gone mad.

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Tim Bowler
  · 11:03

The hypocrisy of Aviation security in Australia is a joke, as a professional pilot operating in and out of Australia’s largest airports of the last 10 years and regularly moving around the domestic tarmac spaces I have only once been asked by an official to see the validity of my ASIC, yet whilst working as a LAME in a remote corner of a regional airport during COVID, the department of home affairs stomped around taking pictures of our ASIC cards and threatened the operator with fines for non-compliance in relation to airside access and signage etc yet baggage handlers at major domestic airports aren’t subjected to the same screening process as Pilots and the general public.

 
Next via RRAT Estimates yesterday:

Senator Canavan uncovers that Department Officials weren't aware of the "Passenger security screening enhancements – case studies on financial impacts at six regional airports"  that was completed in 2019 by their own department ie THEM - WTF?  Ref link: https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/sites/...leased.pdf

MTF...P2