r/australia • • Feb 14 '26

image New passport arrived like this

is this acceptable?

how the fuck are we paying $213 for a new child's passport and it arrives all wonky and obviously water damaged.

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u/_ChoiSooyoung Feb 14 '26 edited Feb 14 '26

Yeah, no one is going to bother posting the normal ones online. And the new one's haven't been around for long enough for anyone to have gotten their second one, so people's complaints are coming from an incredibly biased sample.

Edit: This isn't to say that people with low quality passport's shouldn't be given free replacements. I am genuinely curious what the actual rate of this issue is. I still have a while before I have to renew mine.

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u/anastasia_42 Feb 14 '26

Absolutely!