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| I never got my AUS licence back. 
One should never underestimate the effect of micro-bureaucratics in Switzerland. Okay, the big guys make the rules, but that little guy in the local office somehow has the "discretion" to make life easy or hard for you with having to justify it. | |
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It thinks it's less a case of discretion, but more a case of the lower level drones being unfamiliar/not caring about all the rules. Any trip to a gemeinde to ask anything more than a routine question will highlight this fact!
I'm surprised that yokine got her AUS licence back - usually countries have an agreement between each other that if you take a licence in exchange then they send back the licence or inform the other country of this fact. Next time you are in oz you should try and say "I lost my license while overseas" and see what they say. They may give you back the AUS one, or they may say "Nice try buddy".
In my case I swapped my AUS licence for a UK one years back, and got it back (in the days when nobody cared). I then gave up the UK one to the Swiss (it was the old paper one, so I never carried it anyway)