[Gobbledock]

This is the problem with these bureaucracies. Because someone like Staib and Houston have spent decades climbing government ladders in Defense and other areas, it automatically becomes a right of passage for them to be granted some executive role for the last few years of their careers, a so-called reward for decades of loyalty (and often bullshit and obsfucation), a thank you job and a chance to top up the final superannuation component. I don't rank Houston or Staib one iota. It's no different with Cosgrove. He was gifted a plum job at Qantas and what did the 'great Australian man' do? Approved Joyce year in and year out, as well as the loss of thousands of hard working Australian jobs as a result. Yep, some fuc#ing hero he was, standing by and allowing the Qantas troops to get burned in the trenches by the queer Irish import. Then he bailed when the heat was on and of course was gifted another plum job as Gov Gen for a few years so as to top up his retirement trough. It's a disgrace. I wouldn't piss on the lot of them if they were on fire. Nothing changes under their commands. There are still cost blowouts, calls for inquiries, credit card rorts and suspicious remuneration packages approved by them. As Peetwo says 'indeed the trough runneth over'. Oh well, at least someone doesn't have to struggle through life like the other 99% of society who live in the normal world.

Our pathetic Governments should put the fuc#ing top jobs out to tender, rather than give the jobs to some career bureaucrat pen pushers who have spent their lives in a sheltered government workshop eating from a silver spoon and kissing Prime Minsters asses and wouldn't know a real job from a Canberra posting. Get out into the real world you corporate grubs. We need real aviation industry experts with decades of experience in the relevant aviation fields running these organisations. Not a bunch of limp wristed medal wearing Government footstools.

"Mates rates and undeserved fatcat rewards for some".