Earlier this week, we reported on an AHPRA press release announcing a “surge” in the number of overseas doctors coming to Australia as a result of an unprecedented bureaucratic brainwave.

It was the decision last year to ditch the “in-person” identity check, a pantomime demanding a doctor travels say from their home in Mumbai or London to the shores of Australia to show their face to a stranger to prove they are who they said they are, before returning home and waiting to discover if their application has been a success.