Australian Passport Huge Price Hike

Lguesthero on 13/12/2023 - 14:25
Last edited 15/12/2023 - 11:24 by 1 other user

Australian Passport is already the most expensive passport in the world at $325 AUD for an adult ten year passport (for first time and renewal).

Next year it's going to be close to $400 AUD. What do you guys really think about this steep price increase?

Is it really worth it for $400 AUD for a passport when New Zealand Passport is only $206 NZD which is just half the price of an Australian Passport with entry to more visa free travel countries?

Cost of renewing Australian passports to surge to almost $400

Price hike: Australian passports to cost almost $400 next year

Australian passports to cost 15 per cent more in 2024

Does your passport need to be renewed? It will cost you more next year

Australian passport is most expensive in the world to update

This is the most expensive passport in the world

The actual price next year will not be $375. It will be $325 + CPI Increase + $50 Increase.

This is extremely insane price for a passport when all other countries like NZ, USA, UK, Canada, etc. passports costs much less than Australian passport with entry to more visa free travel countries.

World's Most Expensive Passports (all in US dollars)

Australia $230
Mexico $170
Switzerland $140
Italy $135
United States $130
New Zealand $128
Chile $127
Canada $125
Japan $115
Turkey $110

All above passports are valid for 10 years.

HOW DO THE WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL PASSPORTS COMPARE?

Singapore Access to 193 countries (ranked 1st) - S$70 ($78)*

Japan Access to 192 countries (2nd) - ¥16,000 ($168)*

Finland Access to 191 countries (equal 3rd) - €50 ($82)*

France Access to 191 countries (equal 3rd) - €86 ($140)*

Germany Access to 191 countries (equal 3rd) - €60 ($98)*

Italy Access to 191 countries (equal 3rd) - €116 ($190)*

South Korea Access to 191 countries (equal 3rd) - KRW 50,000 ($58)*

Spain Access to 191 countries (equal 3rd) - €30 ($49)*

Sweden Access to 191 countries (equal 3rd) - 400 SEK ($58)*

Austria Access to 190 countries (equal 4th) - €75,90 ($124)*

Australia Access to 188 countries (equal 6th) - $325*

*Fees based on a 10-year validity period.

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Comments

  • tomleonhart on 14/12/2023 - 09:46
    +1

    I'm hesitating to get my daughter an Australian passport purely because of the cost. She's currently on a Kiwi passport. But i might have to because every time we travel west from NZ via Australia, as the check in staff explained, she will have to be issued with a temp passport which makes the check in process forever !!

  • KaTst3R on 14/12/2023 - 09:48
    +7

    Any Cashback on passports?

  • Sammy Boi on 14/12/2023 - 09:55

    Yeah that is a ridiculous price but we also live in a world where people will turn around and be like that's alright.

  • serpserpserp on 14/12/2023 - 10:05

    I'm overseas at the moment. Worth every dollar.

  • Storm2022 on 14/12/2023 - 10:48
    +4

    Someone has to pay for Airbus Albo's overseas trips, where he has slugged the taxpayer $3.7 million and $364.6 million for his failed yes vote.

    • AustriaBargain on 14/12/2023 - 10:59
      +3

      It was an election promise to do the vote. We should really be blaming Rupert Murdoch and News Corpse for it failing.

      • LFO on 14/12/2023 - 12:19

        It was an election promise to do the vote.

        WHAT??????

        No one saw it coming

  • spriggy on 14/12/2023 - 10:52
    +3

    A resident return visa cost $465 and is only valid for 5 years. Will gladly take the Australian passport anytime.
    Additionally, multiple visas cost in excess of thousands of dollars. So the government is not just increasing the Australian passport cost, but rather across the board. Check the visa prices here - https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/getting-a-visa/fees-an…

    • whyisave on 14/12/2023 - 18:05
      +1

      AU Government has created a brand new business out of selling Visas,
      for 30+ years now, … and they are just making all this money just from Applications itself.

      That's tens of millions of dollars just on application fees alone.
      DAILY.

      Any rejections, do not invoke a refund either.

      The same apply, when Australians apply for foreign country Visas,
      …there are also no refunds if an application is rejected.

      Then, you get the reciprocal 'penalties',
      eg. check how much it costs now for an Australian to visit Argentina,…just for being Australian.

  • AustriaBargain on 14/12/2023 - 10:58

    Maybe part of a plan to keep Australians in Australia, instead of blowing all their money touristing overseas.

  • splicer on 14/12/2023 - 11:13
    +4

    NICE ONE, take Coles and Woolies to a tribunal to have the CEOs face questions about the latest price gouging… then raise the passports to nearly 400 #T^)@# dollars.

    NIIIIIIICE ONE AUSTRALIA.

  • derrko on 14/12/2023 - 11:22
    +1

    The govt don't want you leaving Australia, there more interested in collecting your tax dollars!!

  • SydneySchnorrer on 14/12/2023 - 11:30

    Absolutely Disgusted. It's such a cash grab thinking 'if they can afford to go to Bali, they can afford a passport for $40'. At this price, I'd expect the turn around to be a week and not 6-10 that it often is.

    • t25 on 14/12/2023 - 14:23
      +1

      Some countries can issue a passport to you in about the same time as you need to have lunch.

      • neonlight on 14/12/2023 - 19:47
        +2

        We are talking about Australia where simple pedestrian traffic light crossing takes few months to build.

        Not to mention highways and train stations taking years

        No efficiency on any public infrastructure. Auspost known as snail mail slower than any courier service

        Therefore getting your passport on the same day will not happy within your lifetime.

        Its took 30 years to get Subway/Metro

  • Ihhdle on 14/12/2023 - 12:02
    -2

    We should count our blessings. If you need to renew a Danish passport, you have to present it in person at the embassy (Canberra) or consulate (Sydney). So if you are, for example, in Perth, you will need to add the costs of flights and possibly accommodation to the $235 passport fee. It’s the same in any other country - if you don’t live in the embassy city, you have to travel there to present your passport application for Denmark.

    • frugalftw on 14/12/2023 - 21:08

      That’s curious. Did this rule change during the lockdowns?

      • Ihhdle on 15/12/2023 - 01:58

        It predates lock down. I think it is to do with fingerprinting or some such, which has to be done in person.

  • LFO on 14/12/2023 - 12:17
    +1

    What is the old marketing rule?

    Your customers' willingness to pay reflects the maximum price they will pay for a good or service.

    They are literally (long) queuing for it!

    • Anthonese on 26/12/2023 - 12:14

      But it's not like Australian citizens have any other choice? If I am not a dual citizen and want/need to travel overseas, there is no alterative? So this argument doesn't make sense in this context

  • Cusacka on 14/12/2023 - 12:47

    Just when you think Labor couldnt possibly screw you over more with the cost of living they find a new way.

    • Igaf on 17/12/2023 - 00:04

      Labor's responsible for hikes in energy, oil and inflation 18 months after inheriting Morrison's debt (from 20% of GDP to > 42%) and wage stagnation? How did you work that one out? Sky news come on the back of your corn flake packet?

  • trapper on 14/12/2023 - 13:19
    +3

    Yeah it's a rip off.

  • splicer on 14/12/2023 - 14:07
    +6

    Message to the RBA:
    Also, make sure to note that we are now spending much more on Passports, as well as basic groceries. Because of this extra spending, you better raise the interest rates to curb our spending.

    We spend wayyyy too much on passports, and basic groceries… not by choice though.

  • movieman on 14/12/2023 - 15:02
    +1

    So they add a "one off fee" of $50.

    To such an expensive passport anyways.

    What a rort!

  • haemolysis on 14/12/2023 - 15:13
    +6

    $300 is pretty insane. I see a lot of people justifying it as “well, holiday makers can pay” or something… but it’s a civil right for us to have proof of citizenship, it shouldn’t be a source of profit. The admin fees and printing a small book does not cost $300.

    That said.. as far as government rorts go, there are bigger fish to fry. Not exactly worth launching an enquiry.

    • neonlight on 14/12/2023 - 19:44
      +1

      They ran out of ideas to get more tax now they doing it with your identity

  • bamzero on 14/12/2023 - 15:44
    +1

    Welcome to Australia. You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.

  • AbsX on 14/12/2023 - 15:49
    +1

    It’s all good,
    Surely the workers processing the passports will get a pay rise by a similar %.
    Oh wait..

  • salmon123 on 14/12/2023 - 15:52
    +1

    Anyone actually know the price on Jan 1? So many articles, but actual price isn't mentioned anywhere

  • No ONE on 14/12/2023 - 17:05

    Afghan passport USD3000 which you can't get it officially without waiting a long queue.

  • whyisave on 14/12/2023 - 18:00
    +3

    One thing that is rarely mentioned, is that this price increase is for the 32-pages version.

    There used to be a 64-pages version, and in the Federal Budget (2017 or 2018?),
    it was decided to stop producing the 64-page as a "cost saving", etc. etc.

    I got the 64-page version, a year before it was canceled,
    and back then it cost me $390+ , whereas the 32-page cost $260+ or something like that.

    Good thing about lots of pages is,
    if you take budget airlines flights and when hopping through
    multiple airports, then you have lots of pages to accomodate the stamps.

    Also, some countries issued full-page Visas, so that takes a whole page.

  • neonlight on 14/12/2023 - 19:42

    Maybe the real reason is your passports are printed overseas and transport back by air.

    Since labour and transport cost go up

    Otherwise Au gov just greedy like the supermarket and corporates on price gouging.

    In this case it's not Duopoly but monopoly as only government can issue you a passport. You have no alternatives

    Waiting for someone to say I'm moving overseas to save passport costs and covering more countries no visas for as bargain

  • ribze1 on 14/12/2023 - 20:49
    +3

    So an additional $5/year over 10 years. Ouch, i better not book that $10,000 overseas trip.

    • neonlight on 15/12/2023 - 14:25

      yea better not save more money by not traveling, don't fuel inflation

      Lets hope covid comes back lockdown again, strike harder x100 this time 1 full year of lockdown even better

  • furyou on 14/12/2023 - 21:04

    Yeah, but you want higher wages for the dudes making it for ya.

  • AircraftFreight on 14/12/2023 - 21:33
    +1

    For someone like myself who needs to regularly replace my ordinary passport due to visa pages (thanks DFAT for getting rid for the 67 page passports) it’s getting a bit out of hand.

    My Irish passport and EU Passport card costed me 110 EUR or around $160 AUD. Only 80 EUR for the passport book itself.

  • conza on 14/12/2023 - 21:37

    Pretty great value honestly, it's such an important document, $40 a year? Awesome.

    No I'd rather it be free actually, or have some smaller administration fee, but if it's $400 and everyone basically has to have one, yeah alright, I'll find the extra… $7.50, per year, at my next renewal.

    • illusion99 on 15/12/2023 - 07:06

      Sure but there is no option to pay for it yearly. You’ll have to proactive and save that $40 for 10 years before you need one

  • Eeples on 14/12/2023 - 23:59

    I suppose it is about who can afford to pay tax.

    The assumption being if you have the time and money to go overseas then you can afford a relatively high increase (compared to CPI) of the relative high price of the passport (compared to similar countries pricings).

    If you are against the price hike and expensive passport where would you like the money to be raised (taxed) instead or what gov’t programs do you want cut?

  • HangryCakeStore on 15/12/2023 - 00:04
    +2

    I think it’s a ripoff considering it’s expensive to get out of Australia, since we’re an island and only way is to fly with price gouging plane prices

  • DingoBilly on 15/12/2023 - 08:21

    I don't get it, it's not really that much over 10 years.

    Your drivers license already likely costs $400 over 10 years, and is less important than a passport.

    This is just a stupid news post written to generate anger over nothing.

    • rumblytangara on 15/12/2023 - 16:25
      +2

      I don't get it, it's not really that much over 10 years.

      Many people do not need a passport for 10 years. I remember when I got married overseas, some of my friends got a passport for the first time in their lives, and didn't use it again within 10 years. So they basically paid several hundred dollars on top of the only flights they'd ever taken.

      Your drivers license already likely costs $400 over 10 years, and is less important than a passport.

      How is a drivers license less important than a passport? Many adults go about their daily lives without a passport. Not so many without a drivers license.

      Drivers license is also available with 1, 2, 5 and 10 year versions. If people could buy a 1 year passport, that would save infrequent travellers a lot of money.

      • Nillionaire on 15/12/2023 - 20:11

        and didn't use it again within 10 years

        Why not?

        • rumblytangara on 15/12/2023 - 20:44

          Because a lot of people are either quite happy spending most their lives in Australia, or because flying overseas from Australia is bloody expensive and they don't have the spare cash.

      • DingoBilly on 15/12/2023 - 23:23

        This logic doesn't work because I also have a driver's license but don't own a car.

        I use my passport much more frequently than my driver's license, so by your own logic a driver's license is way overpriced!

        Or maybe don't use anecdotes.

        A passport has a shit ton of security built into it and is far more important and difficult to obtain as a result. So the fact that it's the same price as a driver's license either means the driver's license is overpriced or the passport is undervalued.

  • spedohero on 15/12/2023 - 08:54
    +2

    How could they benchmarked to CPI at 5.4% when my employer doesn’t even increased my wage by 3%!?!?

  • postform on 15/12/2023 - 09:56
    +10

    Wow. People in Australia really need to be more bothered. No wonder everything is going up. It's cause they all get away with it. If people actually complained and pushed back I actually think they'll do something about it.

  • buddy03 on 15/12/2023 - 10:14
    +6

    My wife is Singaporean. When my daughter was born, we got her both Australian and Singaporean passports. The Singapore passport was totally free of charge. The Australian passport was $164 plus $265 for a citizenship certificate so a total of $429.

    Come on Australia, passport should be a service to citizens, not a money making initiative.

    • mirz on 15/12/2023 - 16:02
      +1

      Every govt policy is based on how to milk these dumb citizens more and more.

      You’ll find majority agreeing with these price hikes here.

    • roronoa on 15/12/2023 - 16:25

      Free for SG passport? I just renewed my daughter's SG passport for SGD70 (~AUD78.51). They charge every single bit in SG. And why do you need citizenship certificate for you daughter? I thought birt cert would suffice to get AU passport.

      • buddy03 on 15/12/2023 - 20:57
        +1

        The first SG passport is free, you will need to pay for the subsequent renewals (at a very fair price). I was only a permanent resident at that time as I was still in the process of acquiring AU citizenship so the only way to show that my daughter is an AU citizen by birth is by getting a citizenship certificate.

  • mdw000 on 15/12/2023 - 10:39

    Rather than renew my Australian passport I wonder if I can use my UK one and just show that along with my Australian citizenship certificate on entry to Australia. Probably not but I can't see why not.

    • CocaKoala on 17/12/2023 - 10:03
      +2

      You could.

  • soggypotato on 15/12/2023 - 10:56
    +1

    Post needs a poll.

    I agree that aus passports are damn expensive considering that I need one just for ID and not travelling much.

  • kokita on 15/12/2023 - 11:32

    Other passports can be cheaper, but then you have to apply visa every time you travel.

    Can be up to $150 per application for Schengen Visa as an example, plus you have to provide tons of documents (bank statements, payslips, flight tickets, travel insurance).

    Consider that Australians are still lucky.

    • quick-dry on 15/12/2023 - 21:17

      yeah but the price of our passport could drop to a fiver, and it wouldn't change that though - we're not getting a price decrease because the price of an ESTA went up (for example).

    • jrvb42 on 19/12/2023 - 12:54
      +1

      Fully agree re inconvenience of less "powerful" passports.

      However, a quick check shows the more powerful Singaporean passport costs just S$70.

      So, yes, we are lucky - that wasn't the point of the post.

      The point of the post was the cost of the Australian passport is a ripoff (currently and with an excessive price increase), and this can be seen when comparing with the above more powerful (more countries with visa free entry) passport.

      BTW, I feel you pain re Schengen Visa - been down that road a couple of times - and you'll be thrilled to know that everyone has to use ETIAS soon - visa free entry is soon a thing of the past. I imagine other countries will reciprocate with EU visitors.

  • YodaBaby on 15/12/2023 - 15:38

    $325 for a passport of 10 years versus $465 for a Resident Return Visa renewal for 5 years. Expensive!

  • mirz on 15/12/2023 - 16:00
    +1

    We all will be funding Albo’s non stop flying adventures around the world

    What else we can do to fund these incompetent and corrupt politicians?

  • ThadtheChad on 15/12/2023 - 18:41
    -1

    OH NO!!! So anyway…

  • Look Up on 15/12/2023 - 19:01
    -2

    OzWhingers taken to new heights over a $6.50 per year increase

    Passport production is managed in a high security facility in Victoria by Note Printing Australia, a company owned by the RBA

    NPA employs hundreds of OP's fellow Victorians who use high value tooling to print the passports and embed the various security features

    Passport revenues are collected by DFAT and used to fund the Australian Border Force agents, scanners and other biometric systems used at each international port

    • Nillionaire on 15/12/2023 - 20:09
      +1

      that font 🤮

    • Igaf on 19/12/2023 - 16:59

      and used to fund the Australian Border Force agents

      And still some of them couldn't organise a chook raffle. Ok unfair to the highly skilled people in that space but……

      If Albanese had any balls he'd change the name and split up "Home Affairs".

      • jrvb42 on 22/12/2023 - 08:50

        Just curious - is Home Affairs a different department to Parliamentary Affairs? The latter has been in the news a lot lately with high profile defamation case… Wot? Too soon?

        • Igaf on 22/12/2023 - 10:35

          That case is has been an expensive cf from the start.

          The govt of the day sets the tone for PH, which has for a long time been a place of HUGE ego, disconnect from reality, and world-class brown nosing. As an example of how workplaces should operate it's a national disgrace. The culture is largely either ignored by MPs (and the mostly fawning "press gallery") or they indulge in it, with some exceptions. That incident occurred during the tenure of the worst PM in modern history. If there was a gong for national hypocrisy Morrison would have streeted the field.

    • jrvb42 on 22/12/2023 - 08:54
      +1

      Passengers pay an airport security fee which should be used to fund, oddly enough, airport security arrangements, including border force, scanners and the like.
      The passport fee should only be for the funding of the passport - after all, someone might go overseas only once, others every month or so, and yet the fee is the same.
      Check out the fees on an international ticket - that's what pays the per entry/exit "services".

      Also, the per year increase is irrelevant - the cost is extremely high compared to other nations, and is clearly price gouging by a monopoly entity, which as a government organisation should be a model vendor.

      • Igaf on 22/12/2023 - 10:43

        Fair comment, esp as far as benchmarking goes. It would be interesting to have a full cost/benefit analysis available. I suspect passports are taxpayer subsidised but the benefits which accrue to the country overall are in the credit. The cost Is obviously FAR wider than just passport production and administration.

  • GodsSon23 on 15/12/2023 - 20:43
    +1

    What's bullshit is that you can't get a 5 year passport or even less. Someone may only need to travel once to visit a family member or go to a funeral but they have to pay $400 for a 10 year passport.

  • quick-dry on 15/12/2023 - 21:14
    +3

    passports should be a basic allowance for any citizen of the country, it should be some nominal price, not a source of profit.

    Saying $40 per year isn't much is like saying that million dollar houses aren't an issue because if you live to 80 it's pretty reasonable to only pay 12500 for a year of accomodation.

    If they do want to use travellers as the ones to fund scanners, biometrics, etc, then do it the same as other places - with airport taxes. For those of us who fly very frequently, that sucks, but it's fairer and 'better' to slug us (and people coming and going from overseas) with litte fees more often, than someone who just needs their citizenship document for a one off trip.

    And while I'm at it, the passport should've be taken/cancelled when the new one is put into production - if you can sort out laser etched holographs, and a date of expiry, you can do a date that the passport is valid from. It isn't always viable for people to be without a passport while the other is being produced, even with the expedited service.

  • Thaal Sinestro on 16/12/2023 - 06:08
    +2

    $400 is a lot for a photo and some blank paper. I have never owned a passport (too poor to travel) but to open accounts with most financial institutions you need either a valid passport or drivers license.

    • ThadtheChad on 16/12/2023 - 22:39

      Or you can just get a photo ID card.

      E.g. we have the following in NSW
      https://www.service.nsw.gov.au/transaction/apply-for-a-nsw-p…

      • jrvb42 on 19/12/2023 - 12:46

        Can't speak for NSW, but in Qld, a 3 year learners licence is cheaper than an ID card.
        IMHO, an ID card should be issued free to every citizen and resident.

      • Anthonese on 26/12/2023 - 12:16

        A birth certificate (which everyone should either have or be able to obtain a replacement of) can also be used instead

  • Commander1201 on 16/12/2023 - 09:04
    +1

    High taxes, high rego, high housing, high food prices, despite being two times food sufficient country over, high passport fees.

    An expat said it best "Everything in Australia is high priced and low quality" stuck in my head and it's dead true.

    You're cafe lunch, You're healthcare, You're museums, You're cars - Overpriced and of low quality.

    • rumblytangara on 16/12/2023 - 23:36

      "Your"

    • CocaKoala on 17/12/2023 - 12:53
      +2

      You're cafe lunch, You're healthcare, You're museums, You're cars - Overpriced and of low quality.

      ..and You're English language skills.

  • Saver Scott on 16/12/2023 - 09:26

    We’re forced to pay so much bloody tax in this country, I can see the passport price as being just another ‘(profanity) you’ from our government.

    The Government: “Oh! You wanna go spend your money overseas and rob us of all those tax dollars? Well (profanity) you! This is what you’ll now have to pay for your passport.”

  • Tomcruise on 16/12/2023 - 10:08

    If you don't travel overseas, what's the issue.

    • Commander1201 on 16/12/2023 - 10:44

      Money grabbing from the government and business elite of Australia at the expense of the common man once again, even the communist won't stoop that low.

      • jrvb42 on 19/12/2023 - 12:36

        The cost of, and speed of processing, for "communist" passports from one of our greatest trading partners, is significantly lower (about a sixth of the cost) and as fast to dispense (if not faster).

    • jrvb42 on 19/12/2023 - 12:41

      It's often used for identification also.

      But I take your point - just like if you're living in a caravan, it really doesn't matter what the cost of a house in Syd/Mel/anywhere is.

      As with anything, if you don't use, need, want something - of course it's not an issue, but then why bother commenting. :)

  • nightmarez3k on 16/12/2023 - 16:49
    -5

    You only need a passport if you travel. If you do not need one then you can save $40 a year.

    • Eeples on 16/12/2023 - 20:38

      Even more as you are benefitting by services from government that the 'passport tax' raised and you don't pay it!

    • GodsSon23 on 17/12/2023 - 14:57

      "You only need a passport if you travel" Genius.

  • pennypacker42069 on 16/12/2023 - 20:37
    +1

    If my passport expires late 2024 should I reapply before the end of this year?

    • shadowangel on 19/12/2023 - 21:07
      +1

      you need at least 6months to go to most places so yes you should be applying soon.

  • drfuzzy on 16/12/2023 - 21:52
    -1

    If you measure the unit cost by country land mass per capita per page of passport it is exceptional value.

  • CodeExplode on 17/12/2023 - 01:30

    IMO, as the wealth divide grows larger, the costs of things which only the rich can afford to do will be priced to levels they can endure, and those on the other end of the growing divide won't be considered. Kind of like free to play games with massive costs on paid items, they're only targeting the wealthy as consumers and the poors are just there to create an audience for the wealthy to show off their expensive purchases to.

  • jrvb42 on 19/12/2023 - 12:32
    +1

    Just received new passport, and surprised it didn't come with a cover as previously.
    Passports Australia cutting back on costs, and raising the price at the same time!

    Not supplying a protective cover indicates they aren't helping a passport to last the full 10 years, possibly in the hope they can sell a replacement when the original is inevitably damaged before expiry.

    Nice work.

    • Igaf on 19/12/2023 - 17:03

      Not long ago there were reports of some shady govt operators in Indonesia "fining" visitors for having dirty passports. Apparently it's within their powers to refuse entry on the same basis.

    • shadowangel on 19/12/2023 - 21:11

      Not supplying a protective cover indicates they aren't helping a passport to last the full 10 years

      mine didn't, ran out of pages and it was heavily worn. my partners passport has more pages, comes with a nice cover and was only $50. I paid $442 ordering mine from overseas.

    • neonlight on 19/12/2023 - 23:35
      -1

      Yeah they no longer supply those plastic sleeves…. Very dodgy

  • neonlight on 19/12/2023 - 23:35

    Who is migrating to another country to get a cheaper passport that's the real question

  • anastasiastarz on 20/12/2023 - 20:35

    Has anyone had to buy one for work, and claimed it for tax?

  • bargain huntress on 22/12/2023 - 01:41

    Nomad capitalist might be able to help you?
    Poor - buy book
    Middle - go to conference in malaysia
    Rich - become client

  • sash213 on 23/12/2023 - 05:21

    Is the increase (both CPI and the $50) definitely on July 1?

    Any chance of a rise before this date? The current price says “from Jan 1, 2023”

    I have read a few of the articles but this is not definitive. Hoping it’s a once off increase July 1 so it gives some time to renew rather than rushing now before Jan 1.

    • Igaf on 23/12/2023 - 12:38
      +1

      Lodge your application and pay before 1 Jan. Passport costs are adjusted for inflation on Jan1 each year so could be ~$345

      If you aren't travelling between Jan and July then that 6 months will cost you the CPI increase (~$25 or about $15 after tax if you wait and invest the $325). In those circumstances personally Id wait and not lose the ~6 months on my passport. Obviously you'll want to apply and pay before July 1.

      • sash213 on 23/12/2023 - 12:40
        +1

        Thanks! Appreciate the clarification and guidance

  • GLO on 21/01/2024 - 17:26

    Out of curiosity, did anyone get Optus to replace their passport?

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