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Albo's Great White Elephant Paper Mark II - FDS! 



Via the Dept website:

Aviation White Paper


The Aviation White Paper (the White Paper) will set the long-term policies to guide the next generation of growth and innovation in the aviation sector.

It will clearly articulate the Commonwealth Government’s policies on desired aviation outcomes in relation to safety, competitiveness, sustainability and efficiency to ensure the sector is appropriately positioned to deliver aviation services for the Australian public out to 2050.

The White Paper will examine issues across the aviation sector. This includes four specific areas identified by the Government when announcing the White Paper:

• how to maximise the aviation sector's contribution to achieving net zero carbon emissions, including through sustainable aviation fuel and emerging technologies
  
• the economic reforms needed to improve productivity across the sector, including addressing skills shortages, competition between airports and airlines, and charting a course out of the pandemic
  
• how to support and regenerate Australia's general aviation sector
  
• better mechanisms for consultation on and management of issues like aircraft noise, airport development planning and changing security requirements.
  

On 7 February 2023, the Government released the White Paper Terms of Reference.

In the 2022-23 Budget, the Government committed $7 million of funding to deliver the White Paper.

Want to be involved?

Interested individuals and organisations are invited to make initial submissions on any aspect of the Terms of Reference by 10 March 2023. Further consultations will occur on the Green Paper.

While submissions may be lodged electronically or by post, electronic lodgement is preferred. For accessibility reasons, please submit responses sent via email in a Word or RTF format. An additional PDF version may also be submitted.

All information (including name and address details) contained in submissions will be made available to the public on the Department's website unless you indicate that you would like all or part of your submission to remain in confidence.

Plus via the Oz:

Aviation white paper tackles consumer protection and access to services


Last year’s federal budget allocated $7m for the white paper, which was an election promise for the Albanese government. Picture: NCA NewsWire /Brenton Edwards

By ROBYN IRONSIDE
AVIATION WRITER
@ironsider
12:00AM FEBRUARY 7, 2023

An aviation white paper intended to shape the industry’s future in Australia will examine consumer protections as well as the role of airlines and airports in supporting regional economies.
Last year’s federal budget allocated $7m for the white paper, which was an election promise for the Albanese government.

Nine months on, Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development and Local Government Catherine King was to release the terms of reference for the document on Tuesday.

Ms King said the paper would help deliver long-term policy ¬directions for the aviation industry, which had suffered from a “lack of planning” under the previous government.

“A safe, efficient, sustainable and competitive aviation sector is critical to the economy and the standard of living of all Australians,” Ms King said.

“Aviation connects Australians with the world and communities to each other. It allows us to visit family and friends interstate and it provides a vital link to regions and remote Australia.”

The areas to be covered by the white paper included aviation’s role in economic development, trade and the visitor economy; the regeneration of the general aviation sector; and achieving the industry’s target of net zero carbon emissions.

Submissions were also being sought on appropriate consumer protections and access to services, and the changing nature of aircraft noise and how airports planned and consulted on that.

The deadline for submissions from individuals and organisations is March 10. Policy proposals based on the white paper’s findings will be released in a green paper later in the year.

A previous white paper released by the Rudd government in 2009 recommended the 49 per cent foreign ownership restriction on Qantas remain in place and laid the groundwork for increased security measures at airports.

About 300 submissions were received for the 216-page document, which was criticised by the general aviation community for ignoring their input and delivering little substance.

Last year, a Senate Committee led by Nationals senator Susan McDonald completed an inquiry into the future of the aviation sector in the context of the Covid pandemic.

The final report made nine recommendations, including preparation of a white paper on aviation workforce issues, such as the impacts of “job insecurity, wage decline and the erosion of safe work conditions”.
Future industry workforce skills and training requirements were included in the terms of ¬reference for Ms King’s white paper.

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