08-23-2015, 09:43 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-23-2015, 03:12 PM by thorn bird.)
In My Opinion, a Sunday ramble for the BRB consideration:
Is this Australia’s gigantic fraud?
Politicians do not operate in a vacuum. They rely on the ebb and flow of perceived public opinion relayed to them via a plethora of minions, who shape their reality and massage their ego’s. At the top of the minion pile sits the mandarin, the master puppeteer, the Sir Humphrey, if you like.
There are strong politicians, there are weak ones; but, the ones with the courage of their convictions, who will act contrary to “advice” are very rare and even should this few and far between breed, decide to act contrary to “advice”, they are exposed to the wrath of the minions, to run a gauntlet of leaks, innuendo, passive and in extreme cases overt resistance.
When I look back over 50 years involved in aviation a disturbing thought crosses my mind, nothing seems logical, nor even approaches what would pass for common sense. I do wonder, are we being manipulated, played for fools?
Is a massive fraud being perpetrated on the Australian people?
Someone must have advised politicians that by creating autonomous Government owned monopolistic corporations to regulate aviation, provide ATC and investigate accidents was in the nations interest.
Attach this to an Act which gives these corporations a single indefinable task; “Safety”.Then by adding a principle of user pays; you give the ‘department’ a veneer of being a business entity, monopolistic, but not subject to the same checks and balances that the law provides for private corporations, they can operate in a vacuum.
The notion that a monopoly serves a customer is complete nonsense. Where does a no other option ‘customer’ turn if that service is not up to par; or should the product be flawed or faulty; purchased with no option, warranty or a guarantee?
The aviation Act, carefully moulded and promoted by a master puppeteer was put to our politicians, who were, no doubt bombarded with good reasons and subtly threatened by the “Mystic of safety”. There can be little doubt, that being heavily influenced by department propaganda, describing how dangerous aviation was, how reckless its proponents, that the politicians who dared raise an eyebrow would have blood on their hands and the ‘public’ to answer to. In fact, so reckless, wilful and dangerous are the ‘aviation’ businesses that ‘special’, micro management regulations must be framed under the criminal code, so the ‘criminals’ involved in aviation could more readily be prosecuted and removed, without the need for courts or evidence.
Has this led to an improvement in "Safety"?, the exact reverse is apparent in the statistics and a whole section of what we call the aviation Industry is decimated, capital, jobs and profits disappearing overseas to build up someone else's economies.
Thus, Australian aviation found itself being regulated by organisations that only serve themselves, rather than the industry which supports them, and poorly serve the pubic who pay ever increasing airfares, with ever diminishing safety to support the incompetence.
The incorporation of CAsA and the other agencies was, I believe, a gigantic fraud perpetrated on the Australian people.
These departments only had one mission, enhance “Safety”. Even that simple task, they have failed miserably to affect.
Almost half a billion dollars of taxpayers’ money has been squandered just on the incomplete, useless, nugatory fraud which is referred to as ‘regulatory reform’. Gradually and quite deliberately a protective, safe wall has been built around the system, making those involved completely unaccountable; even to the point where they put themselves above the law, above parliamentary scrutiny, immune from censure and able to ignore recommendations or directives.
It is my opinion that:-
CAsA is a giant expensive fraud, a complete and utter failure as a regulator.
The ATSB has become the bastard child of CAsA and is by extension also fraudulent.
Simply because it is no longer an “Independent” investigator.
ASA is an expensive monopoly, stuck in the past churning through taxpayers money at an alarming rate for no measurable improvement in services but at an ever increasing cost, not only for the Govt. but for the public, who pay at least an additional $12.00 on a fare, to further support a tax payer organisation. Double dip tax?
Similarly the privatization of the countries airports is another complete Fraud perpetrated on the Australian people.
How has giving away our primary airports been beneficial to the Australian people? They were public infrastructure, owned by the people for the benefit of the people, but they were also monopolies, potentially huge money making machines.
Just who “advised” the politicians to give control of these monopolies to very astute entities who were always going to manipulate their business to evade tax. The money the purchasers paid very quickly disappeared into consolidated revenue; and, not a single red cent in tax on a billion a year turnover has been paid. I would say our airports were disposed of at a bargain basement price.
These airports are consistently voted among the worst in the world by the passengers who use them, as well as being amongst the most expensive for the businesses which rely on them.
Privatisation of airports was and is another gigantic aviation fraud against the Australian people.
I will ask again; just how has any of this been of benefit to the Australian people ?
Is this Australia’s gigantic fraud?
Politicians do not operate in a vacuum. They rely on the ebb and flow of perceived public opinion relayed to them via a plethora of minions, who shape their reality and massage their ego’s. At the top of the minion pile sits the mandarin, the master puppeteer, the Sir Humphrey, if you like.
There are strong politicians, there are weak ones; but, the ones with the courage of their convictions, who will act contrary to “advice” are very rare and even should this few and far between breed, decide to act contrary to “advice”, they are exposed to the wrath of the minions, to run a gauntlet of leaks, innuendo, passive and in extreme cases overt resistance.
When I look back over 50 years involved in aviation a disturbing thought crosses my mind, nothing seems logical, nor even approaches what would pass for common sense. I do wonder, are we being manipulated, played for fools?
Is a massive fraud being perpetrated on the Australian people?
Someone must have advised politicians that by creating autonomous Government owned monopolistic corporations to regulate aviation, provide ATC and investigate accidents was in the nations interest.
Attach this to an Act which gives these corporations a single indefinable task; “Safety”.Then by adding a principle of user pays; you give the ‘department’ a veneer of being a business entity, monopolistic, but not subject to the same checks and balances that the law provides for private corporations, they can operate in a vacuum.
The notion that a monopoly serves a customer is complete nonsense. Where does a no other option ‘customer’ turn if that service is not up to par; or should the product be flawed or faulty; purchased with no option, warranty or a guarantee?
The aviation Act, carefully moulded and promoted by a master puppeteer was put to our politicians, who were, no doubt bombarded with good reasons and subtly threatened by the “Mystic of safety”. There can be little doubt, that being heavily influenced by department propaganda, describing how dangerous aviation was, how reckless its proponents, that the politicians who dared raise an eyebrow would have blood on their hands and the ‘public’ to answer to. In fact, so reckless, wilful and dangerous are the ‘aviation’ businesses that ‘special’, micro management regulations must be framed under the criminal code, so the ‘criminals’ involved in aviation could more readily be prosecuted and removed, without the need for courts or evidence.
Has this led to an improvement in "Safety"?, the exact reverse is apparent in the statistics and a whole section of what we call the aviation Industry is decimated, capital, jobs and profits disappearing overseas to build up someone else's economies.
Thus, Australian aviation found itself being regulated by organisations that only serve themselves, rather than the industry which supports them, and poorly serve the pubic who pay ever increasing airfares, with ever diminishing safety to support the incompetence.
The incorporation of CAsA and the other agencies was, I believe, a gigantic fraud perpetrated on the Australian people.
These departments only had one mission, enhance “Safety”. Even that simple task, they have failed miserably to affect.
Almost half a billion dollars of taxpayers’ money has been squandered just on the incomplete, useless, nugatory fraud which is referred to as ‘regulatory reform’. Gradually and quite deliberately a protective, safe wall has been built around the system, making those involved completely unaccountable; even to the point where they put themselves above the law, above parliamentary scrutiny, immune from censure and able to ignore recommendations or directives.
It is my opinion that:-
CAsA is a giant expensive fraud, a complete and utter failure as a regulator.
The ATSB has become the bastard child of CAsA and is by extension also fraudulent.
Simply because it is no longer an “Independent” investigator.
ASA is an expensive monopoly, stuck in the past churning through taxpayers money at an alarming rate for no measurable improvement in services but at an ever increasing cost, not only for the Govt. but for the public, who pay at least an additional $12.00 on a fare, to further support a tax payer organisation. Double dip tax?
Similarly the privatization of the countries airports is another complete Fraud perpetrated on the Australian people.
How has giving away our primary airports been beneficial to the Australian people? They were public infrastructure, owned by the people for the benefit of the people, but they were also monopolies, potentially huge money making machines.
Just who “advised” the politicians to give control of these monopolies to very astute entities who were always going to manipulate their business to evade tax. The money the purchasers paid very quickly disappeared into consolidated revenue; and, not a single red cent in tax on a billion a year turnover has been paid. I would say our airports were disposed of at a bargain basement price.
These airports are consistently voted among the worst in the world by the passengers who use them, as well as being amongst the most expensive for the businesses which rely on them.
Privatisation of airports was and is another gigantic aviation fraud against the Australian people.
I will ask again; just how has any of this been of benefit to the Australian people ?