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The DARD and continued non-compliance with ICAO?? -   

Quote from this week's SBG: https://auntypru.com/sbg-21-03-21-of-kings-in-castles/

...As recently as this week, there was a serious, deep and meaningful pow-wow held between the department and some serious industry players (top draw not the usual riff-raff). It seems the new head of ‘the department’ is not only a straight shooter with brains, but his team are of the same calibre. Not to embarrass anyone, I won’t mention names, but will say that the seriously experienced crew from industry had nothing but praise for the folk from DoIT. Can you imagine how good it feels to have something positive to say about that department; it is a rare and welcome treat. There were some pretty hard heads at that sit-down; not ones to gripe or grumble, but seriously involved. The facts related to ‘the Act’ and the current situation and the simple remedies for that insupportable situation were not only well received, but, brilliantly – they were understood...

...Australia used to be a world leader don’t ya know; reduced now to almost an international pariah through non compliance, idiotic rule sets, a dodgy Act and a mindset which beggars logical, rational minds. Is there yet hope for a urgent reset of the ethos? Reform, regeneration and a return to sanity?... 

I have it on good authority that in the course of the mentioned (above) meeting there was much discussion about international aviation regulatory standardisation, international treaties and our non-conformance with ICAO SARPs (Standards and Recommended Practices).

This inquisition from the Dept is due in large part of their being made aware of many horror stories from the Department's international counterparts, when it comes to dealing with our aviation safety administrator, in the areas of aeronautical trade, commerce and aircraft certification.

This brings me to the reason why the likes of McDermott Aviation (plus other that trade internationally)  were present at that meeting - remember this?

Back to our aviation safety bureaucracy's propensity for obfuscating and taking the piss out of ICAO, the Department only need refer to the previous Department Seceretary Dr Kennedy's answer to RRAT Estimates QON in 2018: ref - https://auntypru.com/wp-content/uploads/...Letter.pdf

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Which of course brings me to the point of bringing back to life this thread, for the benefit of the DARD here are some historical morsels I've dug up from the back of the AP stables...         

ICAO notified differences & the 'snowball effect'

Murky & his minions - A bureaucratic dictatorship?

Obfuscation of ICAO - A how to?

Barry O, Mr McFixit and the ICAO snowjob

Three decades of Australia taking the piss out of ICAO

Hmm...and there's plenty more where that came from...



MTF...P2