Parallels and parallels? or classic examples of how lack of controls, scrutiny and accountability have unintended consequences.....or do they?
They say everyone hates a Monopoly.....unless you happen own one.
Our political class says it abhors monopolies, yet it allows them to exist, for example with our airports. Airports supposedly exist to be utilised, safely, for aviation. Yet our ruling class has allowed them to be subverted by interests who's interests are in direct opposition to their utilisation for the purpose of aviation and the safe conduct of said aviation.
They also say power corrupts....absolute power corrupts absolutely.
We have seen this week in NSW the result of a government agency with unfetted power unseating an elected leader, via a kangaroo court operating pretty much like the Salem Witch trials. We imagine in Australia the rule of law applies, guilt or innocence decided in a court of law where presumption of innocence is paramount, rules for evidence that precludes hearsay and innuendo. Guilt proven beyond reasonable doubt. It would seem ICAC in NSW has set itself up as a parallel judicial system which can destroy careers and reputations via show trials we mock in totalitarian regimes.
No regard as to guilt or innocence just the show, with no accountability.
In our aviation world we face the same lack of accountability. A government agency with unfetted power, that can destroy businesses, careers, reputations and a whole industry, as it sees fit with no scrutiny or accountability.
An organisation that has usurped and corrupted the purpose of the one agency available to fairly arbitrate the probity of its decisions the AAT, turning it into a kangaroo court to conduct show trials for its own grandiloquent purposes.
They say everyone hates a Monopoly.....unless you happen own one.
Our political class says it abhors monopolies, yet it allows them to exist, for example with our airports. Airports supposedly exist to be utilised, safely, for aviation. Yet our ruling class has allowed them to be subverted by interests who's interests are in direct opposition to their utilisation for the purpose of aviation and the safe conduct of said aviation.
They also say power corrupts....absolute power corrupts absolutely.
We have seen this week in NSW the result of a government agency with unfetted power unseating an elected leader, via a kangaroo court operating pretty much like the Salem Witch trials. We imagine in Australia the rule of law applies, guilt or innocence decided in a court of law where presumption of innocence is paramount, rules for evidence that precludes hearsay and innuendo. Guilt proven beyond reasonable doubt. It would seem ICAC in NSW has set itself up as a parallel judicial system which can destroy careers and reputations via show trials we mock in totalitarian regimes.
No regard as to guilt or innocence just the show, with no accountability.
In our aviation world we face the same lack of accountability. A government agency with unfetted power, that can destroy businesses, careers, reputations and a whole industry, as it sees fit with no scrutiny or accountability.
An organisation that has usurped and corrupted the purpose of the one agency available to fairly arbitrate the probity of its decisions the AAT, turning it into a kangaroo court to conduct show trials for its own grandiloquent purposes.