I just came back from short business trip Australia. Getting the visa was an interesting exercise, you install the AU gov app on the phone and fill out a form w

I just came back from short business trip Australia. Getting the visa was an interesting exercise, you install the AU gov app on the phone and fill out a form which at one point photographs your passport and then read yours passport via NFC to validate you were in possession of it and to get IDs and whatnot. It was a little finicky with the passport read, I had to move the phone really slowly across until it detected it and then NOT touch it at all. The submission took just minutes and the approval of the visa came in few more minutes later. Definitely a 21st century experience of submitting your ID! I am comparing it to getting visa to China in 2000 which required me to send off all kinds of paperwork, maybe even my passport? I don't fully recall, but it took weeks.