[Peetwo]

Time to go back to ToRs on the Westminster system? -   

(Ref:- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_system)



Via the AP email chains:

Dear Blank (fill in your favourite Federal MP or Senator -   )

The Age quotes Albanese:-

“ Albanese said Morrison had been running a “shadow government” that was “unbecoming, cynical and just weird ... contrary to the Westminster system”. 

Albanese removed the Australian Transport Safety Bureau from his Department in 2009. It’s functioning has been downhill since then (often just a cover for CASA). 

In 1988 Labor Transport Minister Gareth Evans did the same with Aviation and CASA has been a disaster for what used to be a thriving General Aviation industry. 

Albanese wouldn’t know about the Westminster system if he fell over it. 

And:

Just retired ATSB CEO Greg Hood was ex CASA and thick with previous CASA boss Shane Carmody. I’ve personally seen them working together, at an Avalon airshow seminar.

ATSB accident reports are very soft on CASA’s regulatory or administrative faults that have had contributive bearings on particular accidents. So much so that a Senate Committee investigation caused an independent review by Canada’s Transportation Safety Board.

https://www.bst-tsb.gc.ca/eng/coll/2014/...41201.html

Excerpts:-

“ The TSB Review of the Norfolk Island investigation revealed lapses in the application of the ATSB methodology with respect to the collection of factual information, and a lack of an iterative approach to analysis. ……..

……. First of all, an early misunderstanding about the responsibilities of the Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) and the ATSB in the investigation was never resolved.”

And still isn’t, with obvious repercussions for the safety of flight in Australia.

A direct result of the absence of Westminster system Ministerial oversight and responsibility.

 (Compliments to Sandy -   )

MTF...P2