[thorn bird]

K, on the question of Swine.

I recall a radio program from my youth (a long time ago) No TV in those days nor were we cursed with todays social media (Cess pit). It was a must listen to for the whole family not just a pimply faced adolescent.

One of my favourite characters was Bluebottle, who's exclamation "You rotten Swine you" always cracked me up.

What would Bluebottle make of our brilliant bunch of bureaucrats today?

"Thinks."...... "The rotten swine are a bunch of Goons!"

As much as the alleged privatisation of our airports was and is a complete fraud perpetrated on the public of Australia, which only a royal commission would stand any chance of unravelling. So to has CASA defrauded the people of Australia by propagating unfit for purpose regulations, costing hundreds of millions of public money, which is killing off an industry for no particular reason than an impossible to define nor quantify nor justify myth of safety. Again there is no chance of unravelling this travesty without a royal commission.

Look no further than New Zealand, they were in much the same place as Australia is today. A royal commission exposed the truth and precipitated true reform which set them up with highly regarded regulation envied around the world and copied throughout our region.

I believe it is time for Australia to swallow it's pride, admit we failed and are still failing.

We set out to adopt US FAR's, the most mature effective regulations in the world, made a very good beginning, then for some inexplicable reason, swapped horses mid race to embrace completely new unproven EASA regulations from the most bureaucratic governed region in the world. Those reg's subsequently proved an utter disaster and had to be largely rewritten. Did we learn nothing from that decision? Apparently not.