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Correspondence from Ben Morgan -

Monday, 20th June 2016


The Hon Bill Shorten
Leader of the Labor Party
Suite 1A, 12 Hall Street
Mooney Ponds VIC 3039, Australia
bill.shorten.mp@aph.gov.au


The 94,000+ Users of the Aviation Advertiser Network and 
the various national and state media representatives attached.

Australia’s general aviation industry calls on
Mr Bill Shorten and Labor to meet before election.


Mr Bill Shorten MP and Labor,

My name is Benjamin Morgan and I am the Chief Executive of the Aviation Advertiser Digital an aircraft sales and marketing service based in Australia.  Our services are used by over 94,000 users across Australia, comprising of pilots, aircraft owners, aviation business proprietors, aviation enthusiasts and supporters.  I am also a Director of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association which represents approximately 3,000 members in Australia.

Mr Shorten, as an Australian and as an aviation business owner I have become disillusioned by the quagmire of unnecessary bureaucracy and regulation that is suffocating our general aviation industry - sending it bankrupt.  Worse still, I have become disillusioned by the lack of any serious political leadership on the issues which are affecting us.

Our industry is governed by a department and a regulator which are vastly disconnected to the realities and the challenges that face the hard working men and women in aviation across the country.  Unless a diverse and broad platform of regulatory reform is undertaken by the government, the general aviation industry across Australia will continue to decline and will collapse into bankruptcy.  

It is clear that the future for our general aviation industry now rests in political hands.  I am calling on you Mr Shorten and Labor’s sense of a fair go for all Australians to help save our industry.  Our industry's leadership are unified and are at the ready to help you and the Labor party define the necessary policies to help rescue and empower our industry for growth and prosperity.

Core values our industry stands by:

- Only regulate when necessary and do so proportionately
- Deregulate everywhere we can and reduce cost to industry
- Help create a vibrant and dynamic general aviation industry

With the election now weeks away, there is time to hold a constructive meeting, whereby the Labor party can provide a powerful public policy position for our industry to provide its broad support for this election.  

Mr Shorten, if you could please provide a time to meet, I and the industry leadership shall be happy to travel to meet you, wherever best suits you.

I and our industry eagerly await your response.

Yours sincerely,


BENJAMIN MORGAN
Chief Executive - Aviation Advertiser Digital Group

Telephone: (02) 8215 6292
Mobile: 0415 577 724
Email: bmorgan@aviationadvertiser.com.au 

Mailing Address:
PO BOX 465
Edgecliff NSW 2027
Australia

&... to the PM Malcolm:

Monday, 20th June 2016


The Hon Malcolm Turnbull
Prime Minister and
Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia
PO Box 6004
Kingston ACT 2604 Australia
campaign@liberal.org.au


The 94,000+ Users of the Aviation Advertiser Network and 
the various national and state media representatives attached.

Australia’s general aviation industry calls on the 
Liberal Party of Australia to reform aviation regulations.


Mr Malcolm Turnbull,

My name is Benjamin Morgan and I am the Chief Executive of the Aviation Advertiser (www.aviationadvertier.com.au) an aircraft sales and marketing service based in Australia.  Our services are used by over 94,000 users across Australia, comprising of pilots, aircraft owners, aviation business proprietors, aviation enthusiasts and supporters.  I am also a Director of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association which represents approximately 3,000 members in Australia.

On the 6th of May 2016, I organised an aviation rally at Tamworth Regional Airport.  The purpose of the rally was to highlight to the Liberal/National coalition the desperate state of our industry, calling on the Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Barnaby Joyce and Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development, Mr Darren Chester, to take action.

As an Australian and as an aviation business owner I have become disillusioned (as have thousands of others in our industry) by the quagmire of unnecessary bureaucracy and regulation that is suffocating our general aviation industry - sending it bankrupt.  Worse still, I have become disillusioned by the lack of any serious political leadership by the Liberal Party of Australia on the issues which are affecting us so greatly.

This position was highlighted by the inability of Mr Joyce or Mr Chester to provide any meaningful position or perspectives to the attendees of the aviation rally.  They both simply resigned themselves to public statements of having no idea about aviation and deferred the industry to deal with bureaucrats, whom have no motivation to see broad change occur.

Our industry is governed by a department and a regulator which are vastly disconnected to the realities and the challenges that face the hard working men and women in aviation across this country.  They have made entering and setting up aviation businesses cost prohibitive and have devalued investment within our industry, guiding the general aviation industry into serious and perilous decline.

Our industry requires a strong and clear political intervention to end this bureaucratic nightmare.

Unless a diverse and broad platform of regulatory reform is undertaken by the government, the general aviation industry across Australia will continue to decline and will collapse into bankruptcy.

I am calling on you Mr Turnbull as leader of the Liberal Party of Australia to stand by the men and women of general aviation and to save our industry from the bureaucrats and show strong political leadership on this issue.

If you honestly believe that this is the greatest time to be an Australian, then stand with us and transform our industry into an economic powerhouse by broadly reforming our antiquated and dysfunctional regulatory framework.  Our industry's leadership are unified and are at the ready to help you and the Liberal Party of Australia define the necessary policies to help rescue and empower our industry for growth and prosperity.

Core values our industry stands by:

- Only regulate when necessary and do so proportionately
- Deregulate everywhere we can and reduce cost to industry
- Help create a vibrant and dynamic general aviation industry

With the election now weeks away, there is time to hold a constructive meeting, whereby the Liberal Party of Australia can provide a powerful public policy position for our industry to provide its broad support for this election.  

Mr Turnbull, if you could please provide a time to meet, I and the industry leadership shall be happy to travel to meet you, wherever best suits you.

I and our industry eagerly await your response.

Yours sincerely,


BENJAMIN MORGAN
Chief Executive - Aviation Advertiser Digital Group

Telephone: (02) 8215 6292
Mobile: 0415 577 724
Email: bmorgan@aviationadvertiser.com.au 

Mailing Address:
PO BOX 465
Edgecliff NSW 2027
Australia.

 
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