Originally Posted by
Mauser308
As an aside, seeing as this antiquated thread has been dug up and flogged into life again...
The vetting process is absolutely flawed, so says my BSW-qualified wife who is absolutely fricking disgusted by the process. (BSW is Bachelor of Social Work - her case with Hons - she works with all sectors of society but one sector is family violence). Relevance here, is most of the AO's and vetting staff would be lucky to have more than minimal training in identifying domestic violence cases. As a trained professional, she finds it absolutely abhorent that every time I have been vetted she has had to answer the vetting person's questions with me in the room, despite me offering to leave (I was actually told to stay). A person living with fear will not answer a vetting question truthfully in this instance.
So, A-cat or whatever stupid letter-cat the applicant is going for - I contest it's not worth the paper it's written on. That makes the whole argument for seperate license classes completely void regardless of politicians good intent.