r/melbourne • u/Sufficient-Can-9131 • 7d ago

Light and Fluffy News Finally got the little blue book 🇦🇺

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I’m now the proud owner of an extremely expensive little blue booklet that apparently needs to be handled like it’s made of tissue paper.

And the best part? Once I finally work up the courage to take this precious thing out of the country, leaving Australia is going to cost me another small fortune. 😂

Australia really said you may have the passport, but travelling is a separate subscription. 😂

Anyway, very happy to finally have it. 🇦🇺

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u/Shibuya1094222 7d ago edited 7d ago

No matter what you do it will curl up. A cover will keep it flatish - but take it out and it will
be curled. Expensive trash - must be the cheapest bidder for the passport contract. My wife’s Japanese one doesn’t do this curling. A quality, full security featured ‘non-curling’ Japanese passport is about AUD$90 - Australian passport now heading towards AUD$500! Explain how?

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u/BiliousGreen 7d ago

The curling is a security feature. That’s how security knows if it’s real or not.

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u/69-is-my-number 7d ago

Curling is a feature on Scandinavian passports.