10-29-2024, 02:45 PM
P2 has assembled the information and comment in that post from the not so distant past which again highlights the dubious politicking by Albanese and by Rex management.
And it should not be forgotten that as Transport Minister in 2009 Mr. Albanese kicked out the ATSB from his portfolio with the pathetic excuse that safety matters shouldn’t be subject to politics. Such is the way of a Minister dodging responsibility in a flagrant denial of the Westminster principle of Ministerial responsibility.
In exactly the same way a Labor Party predecessor Minister Gareth Evans in 1988 pushed away aviation out of his Transport responsibility by creating an independent body, now the much dysfunctional CASA which has 2/3rds wrecked GA, to administer aviation. So much for the democratic concept of the Parliament and Ministers having responsibility for the various arms of government and being directly accountable.
But then Aussies seem enamoured with the puerile idea that all will be solved by appointing yet another independent ‘umpire’ for just about any political or social problem area. Examples abound, Commissioners for just about everything, pointless make work and fellow bureaucrat protectors in the fanciful form of Ombudsman, ICAC and IBACs into the bargain (the latter a futile and legally fraught attempt to graft the Continental method of inquisitorial justice onto our British system). If you call spending $billions of your tax dollars uselessly a bargain. As well as wasting the tax dollars we have thousands of publicly employed people not employed in the productive economy therefore a double drain on the general prosperity of Australia.
And it should not be forgotten that as Transport Minister in 2009 Mr. Albanese kicked out the ATSB from his portfolio with the pathetic excuse that safety matters shouldn’t be subject to politics. Such is the way of a Minister dodging responsibility in a flagrant denial of the Westminster principle of Ministerial responsibility.
In exactly the same way a Labor Party predecessor Minister Gareth Evans in 1988 pushed away aviation out of his Transport responsibility by creating an independent body, now the much dysfunctional CASA which has 2/3rds wrecked GA, to administer aviation. So much for the democratic concept of the Parliament and Ministers having responsibility for the various arms of government and being directly accountable.
But then Aussies seem enamoured with the puerile idea that all will be solved by appointing yet another independent ‘umpire’ for just about any political or social problem area. Examples abound, Commissioners for just about everything, pointless make work and fellow bureaucrat protectors in the fanciful form of Ombudsman, ICAC and IBACs into the bargain (the latter a futile and legally fraught attempt to graft the Continental method of inquisitorial justice onto our British system). If you call spending $billions of your tax dollars uselessly a bargain. As well as wasting the tax dollars we have thousands of publicly employed people not employed in the productive economy therefore a double drain on the general prosperity of Australia.