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AMROBA December Newsletter

Via AP emails:

To all members,

December Newsletter – Link Included .

On behalf of AMROBA’s management, I wish you all a Merry Xmas and a prosperous New Year.

As I pack up records to move to Queensland, I have come to the conclusion that CASA has inherited this government’s “do nothing” approach to regulatory change.

Reading a number of past NPRMs that repeat the previous NPRM, has convinced me that government does not wanted change to happen.

Part 43 is a very good example; it has been proposed over and over again.

Government apparently has the same policy with anti-sematic actions, nothing happens.

Look what happened at Bondi.

With us, it a declining industry looking for qualified personnel.

The amount of time industry has wasted making submissions in the last 23 years is outstanding.

What for, nothing happens.

Maybe next year harmonised, non-duplicated regulations will be made?

A dream we all have each year.

See you all in January.

Ken Cannane
Executive Director
AMROBA
Phone: (02) 97592715
Mobile: 0408029329
www.amroba.org.au
Safety All Around.

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February 2026 Newsletter

Via the AP emails:

To all members and associates,

February Newsletter – Duplicity and Stagnation

As I have been relocating AMROBA’s records to Qld, it has become obvious that regulatory reform has lost direction.

Only Australia’s government system cannot complete a reform that most other nations completed in 2-3 years.

The US obtains reform by placing government directions in the FAA Reauthorisation Act

The last government direction was late in 1990s.

It set up the CAA and original directions.

Now we get Minister Directions and DAS directions – a system that does complete the change other nations achieved.

There were numerous politicians from post war era that provided bipartisan support that has vanished.

The lack of political support means that the private industry is subject to public service directions that lacks the same vision for Australian aviation

Globally, most nations took 2-3 years to align their regulatory system with FAA or EASA.

Our alignment with global standards specified by ICAO SARPs is low.

The same problems exist now as it was a decade back.

If we had a political aviation astute government, maybe the direction could be corrected.

Where are the civil aviation engineering (design & maintenance) free trade agreements

Been wet most of the time since relocating

Ken Cannane

Executive Director
AMROBA
Phone: (02) 97592715
Mobile: 0408029329
www.amroba.org.au

Safety All Around.

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