As announced in 7 News, the cost of a 10-year Australian passport will rise from $398 to $412 on the first day of 2025
Shamelessly copied title from the previous deal post
Mod Note: Must also lodge by 31/12, not just apply, see here.
$398 Passport Renewal Fee: Apply Online & Lodge by 31/12/24 (Price Increase from 1/1/25) @ Australian Passport Office
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BargainsGrabber on 30/12/2024 - 20:31 passports.gov.au (1954 clicks)
Last edited 31/12/2024 - 10:19 by 1 other user
Last edited 31/12/2024 - 10:19 by 1 other user
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Whoever implemented the sort function on the fee must be on some decent stuff.
This hurts a lot on a family of 5.
Agree. Australian passport is now is one of the most expensive passports in the world, if not already the most expensive.
Thanks. Bought 5 ?
In five years it will hit 500
Assuming no big half yearly hikes in between because government ran out of cash.
Jan 2022 it was $308, Jan 2025 is $412, soooo, $500 is likely to come well within the next 5 years…
$14 saving on $400 not a good deal considering the hoops to jump. 10 year passport generally only last about 9.5 years anyway. Many countries refuse entry if you have <6 months validity
Thanks OP, ordered 5 😅
They can't increase whatever, whenever they please, FFS
Yikes. Just applied for citizenship too. Wish it wasn't such an issue to travel in/out of Aus on my US passport as a (prospective) dual citizen…got no choice but to bite the bullet on this if granted. Cheaper than the RRV every 5 years I suppose
Thanks again Albo and the 32%
My current passport expires June 2027 but has a tiny tear at the seam. I have been refused travel to Bali for a wedding by Virgin staff at Brisbane Airport, so I need a passport replacement as I don't want that to happen again.
I would say I have not done anything to cause that damage. It is just normal wear and tear (have travelled to 27 countries in one of those years). It could have been caused by any number of airport staff over the years. Why should I have to wear the cost of a brand new passport when I still have 2.5 years left on this one? Also lost 2 years from COVID, and need 6 months validity to travel. So basically paid for 10 year passport and only got 5 years?
Also would anyone know if you earn credit card points for purchased at Australia Post?
And is it normal for Australia Post to refuse to split transactions when paying? Wanted to pay $350 with Zip Pay. Lady was apologetic, says possibly due to scammers they have this policy now…
Funny enough Albo gets his diplomatic passport for free. He doesn’t care about these things he loves his freebies, as long as his freebies are free life goes on for him. Lounges, passports, housing, food. All taken care of. He’s such a pathetic PM. Weasel Chalmers is even worse. Canberra spin doctor talking about how good everything’s going, while people are doing it so tough is wild.
Thing is the Libs are the same if not handing out corporate welfare packages for their cronies? Doesn't matter who you vote for they all look after their own interests. Need to look at other party options and better candidates for leadership positions who haven't sold their soul to the corporate world :)
as someone above said, Coke vs Pepsi.
I'm amused at the News corp regurgitation by some people and how Albo wastes money and everyone hates him etc etc, but they never mentioned Abbott, Turnbull, Scomo and all their economic failures. And they completely forget about the Howard-Costello inter-generational economic failures notably to do with mining and gas and negative gearing. In fact, the best economic managers we had was the Hawke era.
Just $215 for NZ passport. Less secured by half?
Good way to stop Centrelink recipients from spending tax payers money overseas…
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For the price we pay, the current passport is terrible quality. There is something wrong with the outside covers they use, even when not wet or anything, they curl up and look terrible. Another family member and I got passports months apart in 2024, both did the same thing… they have to live under a pile of heavy books to stay flat.
https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-advice/flights/big-pro…
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Crazy. I've renew last year December cost like $328 if correct. but Imagine the cost increases for the passport in ten years time. what a rip off by the gov't
Please note you are buying AU passport and this government is setting its own price! No bargain!
Adult $412 from $398
CHD (under 16) $208 from $201
Normal waiting time to get your new pp delivered to your address from 3 to 6 weeks
Want it sooner: +$104 to have it in 10 days or +300 to have it in 5 days (business day)I feel pain for those large families that urgently need to travel for ‘family matters’!
It's blatant extortion by the government. Because they can.
Just recently went to an EU country's consulate in Melbourne and got said EU country passport for $110.
Its crazy how we need to pay so much for an AU password. An EU passport allows me to travel any where in the EU for over 3 months without a visa.
Australia is (profanity), sighs
This horse crap started after 9/11.
In 2001 a passport was $126.
Due to that magic biometric chip which ended all terrorism, passports nearly doubled in price.
Thanks to successive LibLab governments conveniently letting most things increase by CPI, it was a underhanded way of secretly increasing taxes by stealth which has has got us to the position of ludicrously most overpriced passport in the world.
This isn't really an excuse when every other country is still under half the price (except a few)
german passport was about the $500 mark. if you travel for work, work pays for it, if you travel for pleasure it’s not an essential , it’s discretionary spending, item like a Medicare card which is free is essential.
That's why I hate this country, even private health is discretionary spending and not essential but with my diagnosises I require it.
Not to compare the two - a passport is obviously a discretionary expense and a luxury. But just because you mentioned Medicare - it's the bare minimum they provide.
For context I have PTSD that lawsuits for the cause of fell short because I mentally didn't have the fight, so the public (and private via insurance) system has to pick it up. I'm thankful we have such systems, but the cost of private heath for what is essentially health costs I can't claim elsewhere or get met in public is insane.
@illusion99: Good plan, will investigate.
Jokes aside, my situation is actually that bad that the lack of disability and healthcare services available to me here I legitimately do look at the option of other countries. The NDIS is an absolute mess that ends up simply with money in the hands of fraudsters, private health is okay but hard to afford without working, etc.
The UK is a legitimate example as you have to pay an NHS copay for your visa, but you end up with full NHS coverage and their disability services (or a lot of them) come under NHS. I would actually have disability supports, just without access to public funds.
Due to that magic biometric chip which ended all terrorism, passports nearly doubled in price.
That's like saying, paying extra for carbon offsets or driving EVs, is going to stop the glaciers melting.
Bloody ridiculous. I paid about €80 for my Italian 10 years passport. Of course I’m not allowed to travel only with my Italian passport. Otherwise I would.
If you travel very often, it’s fine. It’s still expensive for someone who probably use it once or twice in 10 years.
This doesn't work, my application timeframe ended on 31/12 when I applied a few weeks back. It didn't give the usual timeframe.
Edit: Unless, I mean, you lodge it at Auspost literally today.
Edit2: As in title wrong, you do NOT get 28 days anymore. Mine was due 31/12, despite applying mid Dec.I just came here for the comments 😂
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Sounds like Straya tax.
Just looked up renewing passporg from my country of birth. The fee for the issuing of a passport is €70 ($117AUD) for adults and €45 for minors for 10 years.
Ireland or Cyprus?
Chypre douze points
complete bullshit. most expensive passport in the world and yet not the strongest. most european passport cost alot less around 70 euros. and even they have less pages then most other passport
World most expensive passport
Extremely far from a bargain, no deal
And that's why I don't bother getting an Australian passport anymore. NZ about half the price.
The land of the ripoff.
The isuue is that we public wouldn't protest against these unjust practices.
Toll, Vehicle registrations ,Land taxes all increased well above CPI.
I am sure GST will be 13 or even 15 wthin next 2 years.
The corporates loot us legally..
During covid they encouraged us to use tap and pay.
Introduced Visa debit cards to get a percentage of spending our money.
Now every efpos transactions are charged at local markets. The merchants claim it is the bank charging us.
Credit card interest is climbing and interest free days cut.
Physical money is disappearing.
Then they can charge whatever they need for digital transactions.
We elect politicians to govern us in our best interest but opposite happens evrywhere..
I dont see an end to these exploitations anytime soon.
OP’s post is a PSA - of a PSA.
Plain and simple.Current pricing is suddenly not a ‘deal’ because a price increase has * gasp * been announced.
There appears to be inconsistency in Ozbargain’s QA - yet frequently.
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What a joke! Lucky they do not measure the quarterly CPI figures based on the price of passport!
A grand total of 2 people probably took up this offer to save $14, and they were going to renew anyway no matter what the price.
Nice bargain… not!
most expensive passport in the world, australia is just mental
Since when daylight robbery is a deal?
I had my original comment and negative vote unpublished by mods for apparently being an inappropriate use of negative vote, must be having a laugh. I said this was a stretch to call a deal or a bargain. So to be clear, this is the RRP and not a deal or bargain. A post like this belongs in the forums.
I had mine revoked as well for similar reasoning.
There has been a lack of consistency lately around here. Hope they get their distinguishing consistency sooner.
Feel free to cite examples. I'll wait…
I’ll wait…
I’m glad you will wait. Thanks.
Feel free to cite examples.
Feel free and take your time to check my detailed enquiry (with example) in ‘talk with a moderator’ dated 21/12/2024.
@YoursTruly: Yes, staff members went into even greater details with the guidelines to explain deal vs. forum, cited examples and the guidelines.
I'll quote the last post in that thread since it is only viewable to you and staff:
The logic is already outlined in our guidelines but you are not satisfied with how we applied them, you wanted us to justify our logic on each and every one of the deal posts listed, and to demonstrate to you the guidelines were consistently applied. You had given us nothing specific to examine but a blanket claim that a systematic problem exists with our moderation.
That's a long form version of what I said.
I guess the question I have for you is, are you willing to change your mind/position on this topic? If you're set on your answer, then I don't think there is anything we can say to convince you otherwise (and that's fine). I mean I'm a Carlton supporter and while I keep an open mind on everything, I'll never be a Collingwood supporter (sorry jv).
@neil: Respectfully: nah.
Perhaps post the entire thing. I’m ok with that. Has more context that way and would show all.
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I guess the question I have for you is, are you willing to change your mind/position on this topic? If you're set on your answer, then I don't think there is anything we can say to convince you otherwise (and that's fine)
This goes both ways. Not just one way.
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This isn’t a question of open mindedness/ change position/ stance/ etc. that’s a seperate topic.
The topic here is about a ‘deal vs forum post’ distinguishing - and hopefully a clear distinguishing made and applied sooner. It’s vague from the current indications.
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It’s expected that - as a community manager - you would stand and side with the staff. Anyone in your position would be expected to at least publicly. If you change your stance here there would be a ‘slope’. I think we both know that.
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I didn’t expect a resolution based on some of the responses I got from the staff. I felt attacked and insulted midway through the genuine enquiry. Interesting method to moderate.
My times up.
I had my original comment and negative vote unpublished by mods for apparently being an inappropriate use of negative vote
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I said this was a stretch to call a deal or a bargain.
No, your comment was:
Wow adding this as a "bargain" is a real stretch… if only we a forum where we could add this type of information.
Can you point to what guidelines makes this post being move to the forums especially since last time it was also posted as a deal? Deal Posting Guidelines Plenty of deals that go up in price in the future like Steam games to name a few. Some even from the Australian Passport Office
The part where I mentioned this being a bargain is a real stretch is where it was pretty clear I did not think this is a deal or a bargain, it is normal price. It's great to see mods throw their weight around… if you were going to repost my comment above why didn't you just leave it rather than unpublish it?
It's great to see mods throw their weight around…
Just staff members like myself enforcing the guidelines. You don't have to like it but these our the house rules just like any other website, business or even someone's house (e.g. no wearing shoes in the house).
if you were going to repost my comment above why didn't you just leave it rather than unpublish it?
Good question. The technical mechanism for removing invalid negative votes, removes the comment and the vote and I believe some notification to the user. We can just remove the vote but there is no notification or note of why it was removed. It brings up an interesting point as when the community revokes a vote, I don't believe there is a notification to the user or at least it's not displayed on the comments part of the page. Perhaps something we need to revisit to make it more consistent.
…especially since last time it was also…
Should the future continue in the same way just because the past did the same thing?
Yes and no.
No. Community expectations, technology, and culture changes. So in that respect, we do often update the guidelines based on feedback, statistics, etc. You can see site and guideline changes over the years.
Yes. Best example is courts who cite other cases where precedent is established. Precedent is important on OzBargain so all members of staff can respond in a similar way based on previous actions we've taken.
A reminder to pay the same price before a price increase aint a bargain
How dare you bring logic to this thread.
Passport bros 🥴
Majority of Western women are unwifeable, don’t blame them.
We have the most expensive passports in the world
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.9news.com.au/article/c1ac44…
how is this a bargain? this is more of an announcement than anything else
you could be encouraging people to renew it now but thats only a small selection of people.
Imagine the cost in 10 years time, we'll be paying 1000's for an Auzzie passport, bloody rediculous!
Here is the real reason why
https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/11/01/dfat-passport-office-au…
https://www.anao.gov.au/work/performance-audit/efficiency-of…Not competitive and unethical.
We are likely paying for the internal re-structure and clean out.Sorry this simply isn't a bargain. We can't be a site offering free PR to a government that isn't handling their business re: cost of living pressures.
Yep. Bring back Howard and Scotty! Down with unions!
What made the decision of increasing price like that? Is there any department auditing this?
This post did make me briefly panic about renewing my newly expired passport today. But then I have no plans to travel overseas in the near future, so I'll save more money just waiting.
May as well buy everything at Colesworth as well as it will probably increase in price next week.
Wow, so… Just to confirm that this is a 2025 RRP vs 2026 RRP?
Ripper of a deal!
The 2024 RRP vs 2025 RRP.
Whoops, silly typo =)
Can we talk about how Australia is one of the only countries to not give their citizens preferential treatment when entering the country. Making your own citizens spend an hour in a queue with all the foreigners is (profanity) disgusting. We get treated like second class people in our own god damned country.
If you can afford to travel in these economic conditions, there’s nothing wrong with jacking up the passport fees.
You should contribute more if you can afford more to this country.
Worst take I've ever read.
You should contribute more if you can afford more to this country.
How about you contribute more to this website by posting a bargain?
As if over 40% of my income isn’t enough already lmao gtfo
All current 2025 pricing
https://www.passport-collector.com/global-passport-fees/