12-05-2022, 04:40 PM
Karon:-“ ATSB must be independent of all external influence.”
Rightly so except it should be within a Department of Government as a special unit just as it was forever until in 2009 Minister Albanese declared it shouldn’t be subject to politics and shoved out of his department to become yet another rudderless creature of the Can’tberra bureaucracy. Yes I hear that it shouldn’t be a matter of party politics but, for all the faults, all of government is subject to “politics.” Someone has to call the shots and, at times, demand of the ATSB value for the taxpayer dollar and for the edification of the aviation community.
The ATSB being pushed off, just as was the independent CASA in 1988, quickly showed the same malaise as our much venerated CASA and that other independent government monopoly business, and paragon of cost saving efficiency, Air Services Australia.
Rightly so except it should be within a Department of Government as a special unit just as it was forever until in 2009 Minister Albanese declared it shouldn’t be subject to politics and shoved out of his department to become yet another rudderless creature of the Can’tberra bureaucracy. Yes I hear that it shouldn’t be a matter of party politics but, for all the faults, all of government is subject to “politics.” Someone has to call the shots and, at times, demand of the ATSB value for the taxpayer dollar and for the edification of the aviation community.
The ATSB being pushed off, just as was the independent CASA in 1988, quickly showed the same malaise as our much venerated CASA and that other independent government monopoly business, and paragon of cost saving efficiency, Air Services Australia.