01-03-2024, 07:39 AM
The finger pointing illustration sums up our dysfunctional system of aviation governance.
P2’s forensic analysis has once again prised open the lid on the can of worms that is government by independent bodies whose functions were once within Departments with responsible Ministers at head with direct oversight. The Westminster tradition with its proper, principled and pragmatic feature of the most direct line of responsibility between the governed and the governors has been discarded with predictable and now very obvious consequences. The Public Sector, that which used to be the Public Service, is a fat revolving door operation with some pointing of fingers in the blame game as P2 so ably exposes. But beyond that they are all conscious that this can’t go too far lest Ministers are forced to step in which could, just conceivably, place at risk the whole colossal gravy train and the salary factories of Canberra.
P2’s forensic analysis has once again prised open the lid on the can of worms that is government by independent bodies whose functions were once within Departments with responsible Ministers at head with direct oversight. The Westminster tradition with its proper, principled and pragmatic feature of the most direct line of responsibility between the governed and the governors has been discarded with predictable and now very obvious consequences. The Public Sector, that which used to be the Public Service, is a fat revolving door operation with some pointing of fingers in the blame game as P2 so ably exposes. But beyond that they are all conscious that this can’t go too far lest Ministers are forced to step in which could, just conceivably, place at risk the whole colossal gravy train and the salary factories of Canberra.