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Australian Passport Application
Posted by Leon Novello on March 23, 2023, 11:01 pm
AUSTRALIAN LETTER - I think the sender might have been upset!
This is an actual letter sent to the DFAT (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade) Immigration Minister. The Government tried desperately to censure the author, but got nowhere because every legal person who read it couldn’t stop laughing !
Dear Mr Minister,
I'm in the process of renewing my passport, and still cannot believe this.
How is it that K-Mart has my address and telephone number, and knows that I bought a television set and golf clubs and condoms from them back in 1997, and yet the Federal Government is still asking me where I was born and on what date ?
For Christ’s sake, do you guys do this by hand ?
My birth date you have in my Medicare information, and it is on all the income tax forms I've filed for the past 40 years.
It is also on my driver's licence, on the last eight passports I've ever had, on all those stupid customs declaration forms I've had to fill out before being allowed off planes over the past 30 years.
It's also on all those insufferable census forms that I've filled out every 5 years since 1966.
Also... would somebody please take note, once and for all, that my mother's name is Audrey, my father's name is Jack, and I'd be absolutely bloody astounded if that ever changed between now and when I drop dead !!!
SHIT! What do you people do with all this information we keep having to provide?
I apologize, Mr. Minister. But I'm really pissed off this morning.
Between you and me, I've had enough of all this bullshit!
You send the application to my house, then you ask me for my bloody address!
What the hell is going on with your mob? Have you got a gang of mindless Neanderthal arseholes working there!
And another thing, look at my damn picture. Do I look like Bin Laden? I can't even grow a beard for God's sakes. I just want to go to New Zealand and see my new granddaughter. (Yes, my son interbred with a Kiwi girl).
And would someone please tell me, why would you give a shit whether or not I plan on visiting a farm in the next 15 days? In the unlikely event I ever got the urge to do something weird to a sheep or a horse, believe you me, I'd sure as hell not want to tell anyone!
Well, I have to go now, 'cause I have to go to the other side of Sydney , and get another bloody copy of my birth certificate - and to part with another $80 for the privilege of accessing MY OWN INFORMATION!
Would it be so complicated to have all the services in the same spot, to assist in the issuance of a new passport on the same day?
Nooooo, that'd be too bloody easy and makes far too much sense.
You would much prefer to have us running all over the bloody place like chickens with our heads cut off, and then having to find some 'high-society' wanker to confirm that it's really me in the goddamn photo! You know the photo... the one where we're not allowed to smile?...you bloody morons.
Signed - An Irate Australian Citizen.
P.S. Remember what I said above about the picture, and getting someone in 'high-society' to confirm that it's me?
Well, my family has been in this country since before 1820! In 1856, one of my forefathers took up arms with Peter Lalor. (You do remember the Eureka Stockade!)
I have also served in both the CMF and regular Army for something over 30 years (I went to Vietnam in 1967), and still have high security clearances. I'm also a personal friend of the president of the RSL...Lt General Peter Cosgrove sends me a Christmas card each year.
However, your rules require that I have to get someone "important" to verify who I am; you know...someone like my doctor - WHO WAS BORN AND RAISED IN BLOODY PAKISTAN!...a country where they either assassinate or hang their ex-Prime Ministers - and are suspended from
the Commonwealth and United Nations for not having the "right sort of government"..
You are all pen-pushing paper-shuffling bloody idiots!
I am amused by the standard forum note after the text of the letter, "...There are no responses to this message." LOL. Other opinions may be available but this one is always correct.
They won't stop doing this for the same reason they won't implement a simple "flat tax".... because if they did quit doing it, a million useless government drones and paper pushers would lose their cushy overpaid jobs and lavish pensions.
Lannis At no time in history have the people forcing other people into compliance been the good guys.
We're not so bad - you can apply for a passport online and e.g. if you're surrendering an existing ten-year-old passport, you don't have to provide a birth certificate.
However - get this - when you reapply for your driving licence (which you have to do (free) every ten years too), while the Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency can check your details with the Passport Office, the DVLA can't get your photo. ... When you apply for a passport, you can take the photo. at home and upload with your electronic application to the Passport Office; when you renew your driving licence, you have to fill out a paper form and stick a photo. to it ...
Really Stuart? When I do my renewal, now every three years due to age, they simply uplift my passport photo, which incidentally I took at home using my own camera and then uploaded to the passport office.
I don't know when you renewed your driving licence but mine was updated from the Passport Office before I reached the three year threshold.Other opinions may be available but this one is always correct.
Like that in our NHS you enter hospital through A&E they take your address and name and date of birth you get to see a nurse who asks you again ( obviously if you don't answer your dead ) then you see a Doctor who asks the same questions and asks why your in there..plus what medication you are taking..they then compare it with what's on their computer..you medical history..( Ican do this on my phone in seconds) Then you are attended to..you have a plastic wristband on your right are with all this information on a bar code.. and red wristband on the left with you allergic details. Both can't be removed only with scissors. They then decide what to do. Usually put a catheter into your arm and then wire you up to a bleeping machine .. From then on you are treated usually by two or three so-called experts but you have your doubts as they keep asking the same questions.. If lucky you get treated.. and then go to a recovery ward Not one for your problem but for anyone ..last time I was in a ward of six Brand new ward.. one person had Dementia and he was Barking all night next to him was a chest patient coughing his guts up all night. The same the next but he did sleep.two more one more on my side of the ward the chap next to me in a came they took him away in the night.. Thre nurses on the ward overnight ..they were looking up house prices on the computer I could hear there conversations.. I can go on but just have to say .the African male nurse who came around and gave out medication and checked our monitors was wonderfull listend to our ailing he even told me how to unplug myself from the machines to go to the toilet I wasn't going to sit on a cardboard potty ..later in the day he organised my discharge by going personally to get my new prescriptions instead of waiting.. he even removed my catheter that normally you have another nurse to do that when they are ready.. I saw four different doctors from the cardiac department two wanted different actions one wanted an Xray the other said no..Oh yes I did get a MRI of my head as I banged it when I passed out.. The best experience was the three girl Ambulance crew they stayed with me the whole time Four hours waiting to get into E&E .. That is the state of our NHS.. TUDTonupdave..T.U.D.
Bear in mind each each person that treats you has to make sure they're talking to/treating the correct person - more than one person from the same family could be in at the same time or, busy A&E, there could be more than one patient called e.g. Smith or Jones? You wouldn't want to be mixed up with someone with same name who has, say, an appointment with the proctologist?
Here, my Scottish surname isn't uncommon even though there's only four in our family; there can be several different spellings of a surname pronounced the same; our local medical practice, "Grant" is so common, it has a separate records filing cabinet ...
Regards,
Re: in our NHS
Posted by Tonupdave on March 24, 2023, 1:18 pm, in reply to "Re: in our NHS"
There were three Kidds in at the same time as me. I got a phone call from one of the others sons when in A&E. But the moment they have your date of birth and NHS Number that's it all on record.. I access nmy records on my mobile simples Tonupdave..T.U.D.
Re: in our NHS
Posted by pete__s on March 24, 2023, 4:54 pm, in reply to "Re: in our NHS"
I was in a private hospital recently (Knee replacement) They did exactly the same, asked me name and DoB before everything apart from giving me tea and biscuits. They even checked when I was in the theater and about to go under in just a couple of minutes. The damage of getting it wrong is just too great.
FYI I was very pleased with myself last week. Half the folk showing up for the 2 month post op review do it still using walking sticks. I cycled there :-)
Re: in our NHS
Posted by Nigel B on March 24, 2023, 6:16 pm, in reply to "Re: in our NHS"
It took me weeks to wash off the purple arrow drawn on my right wrist to make sure that the correct thumb got "fixed" when I was in last year.
The creative body art came after the repeated name / address / DoB etc. but better than doing the wrong side I suppose.
First outing on a bike post operation on Monday when the Inetrceptor goes in for annual service / MoT - 4 years old already !
Nigel B.
Re: in our NHS
Posted by Tonupdave on March 24, 2023, 6:40 pm, in reply to "Re: in our NHS"
Good for you Pete that's great news I have been using a stick now for two years mine is a balance problem ..when I got Sepsis must have been that part of my brain or something shut down.. This morning phoned my surgery asked to see a doc told to bring a pee sample and then a phone call discussion so took the sample got back home (10 Mn walk) they phoned before I could answer they rang off rung in afternoon ..to discuss my future at the Hospital couldn't test my sample as it leaked ( was in a proper sample bottle I ordered loads way back no troubles at all)Tonupdave..T.U.D.
on March 23, 2023, 11:01 pm
