[thorn bird]

It has always seemed incongruous to me that Australia has always punched above its weight in its dealings with ICAO.
I have heard senior FAA officials mention that they would really prefer they did'nt but they do, or try to.

I wonder why Australia has expended so much treasure time and effort into ICAO?

They were there at the beginning, sat through all the development of policy and most notably ICAO SARPS that map out the framework for operational standards and practices in aviation regulation.

Along with most of the worlds regulators Australia contributed to the SARPS.

Yet here we are today at odds with what ICAO set out to do.

Seems we wasted an awful lot of money and time on that little exercise if we were going to go it alone in the first place.