Other Australians who can't pay, get a 60 day FFXIV time card from a place like game.co.uk. They will email the registration number to you after a couple hours. I think it's a few dollars more expensive but it works flawlessly and at least it gets you back in the game. Make sure you have the EU region game.

SE should have worked this problem out in 2 months so by then we can forget about stupid time cards.. I hope..