01-04-2022, 02:42 AM
P2, I think the Department is well meaning and the Associations don't have much choice but to jump on the reform bandwagon - it's something about being "inside the tent".
However it was telling watching the smug CASA senior managers as their leader Pip Spence destroyed what credibility she had left in front of the Senate RRAT committee when challenged by Angel Flight. it is now quite clear that she is only a figurehead and she knows it after that performance.
What CASA senior managers don't realise is that Kharons "Mandarins" (Sunday Brunch Gazette) saw that performance too and will have come to the same conclusion I have - which is that CASA is an administrative accident waiting to happen because its senior management is "problematic". A cursory glance by a Mandarin will reveal the teetering tower of convoluted regulations these "managers' have constructed and that, without urgent action, the whole pile will come crashing down shortly if nothing is done to dismantle it. Furthermore it will become blindingly obvious that Pip and her team aren't capable of executing their part of the Ministers recovery plan.
If anything, unless I'm totally mistaken, the Mandarins response to the problem of CASA is going to be swifter and less charitable than anything you or I would suggest. They do not like Senior managers who become too big for their boots, they don't like it at all. i once watched as they cut a foreign Affairs Manager down to size. he had constructed what he thought was a nice little regulatory nest for himself and he thought he was untouchable too, but that is another story.....
However it was telling watching the smug CASA senior managers as their leader Pip Spence destroyed what credibility she had left in front of the Senate RRAT committee when challenged by Angel Flight. it is now quite clear that she is only a figurehead and she knows it after that performance.
What CASA senior managers don't realise is that Kharons "Mandarins" (Sunday Brunch Gazette) saw that performance too and will have come to the same conclusion I have - which is that CASA is an administrative accident waiting to happen because its senior management is "problematic". A cursory glance by a Mandarin will reveal the teetering tower of convoluted regulations these "managers' have constructed and that, without urgent action, the whole pile will come crashing down shortly if nothing is done to dismantle it. Furthermore it will become blindingly obvious that Pip and her team aren't capable of executing their part of the Ministers recovery plan.
If anything, unless I'm totally mistaken, the Mandarins response to the problem of CASA is going to be swifter and less charitable than anything you or I would suggest. They do not like Senior managers who become too big for their boots, they don't like it at all. i once watched as they cut a foreign Affairs Manager down to size. he had constructed what he thought was a nice little regulatory nest for himself and he thought he was untouchable too, but that is another story.....