Once, were worriers.
It would be hard to disagree, in the main, with either of the statements above. But then it was hard to disagree with the Rev Forsyth and his crew, the TSBC or even the Senate Pel-Air recommendations. All valid, considered and worthy of direct action.
It would also be hard to disagree with the fact that nothing ‘real’ has been done; the regulator remains a retrogressive mess; the idiot rules are being pumped out and enforced. It is more than reasonable that ‘industry’ folk are annoyed and are wondering why?
One need look no further than the Estimates thread and Hansard to understand where the road blocks are located. The departmental suits sit there, bluff and obfuscate their merry way through tough, awkward questions and leave the building to workshop the oblique answers to QoN without a care in the world. If ‘they’ can stare down a Senate committee and call the ASRR an opinion, the IOS and the like have no chance in hell, no matter how much dust is kicked up, of achieving any meaningful change. United, then perhaps the alphabet soup groups stand a chance, but even then it’s only a slim one. Any settlement will be, at best, a negotiated armistice to gain time. Time to drive in the wedges, divide through exemption and conquer through fear of having those ‘exemptions’ and special ‘arrangements’ cancelled.
It is not the rule set which needs reform, never has been, never will be. If CASA is not reformed, from the top down, then all of the best intentions, meetings or agreements will not change things, not one iota.
Skidmore must go – that is pretty much an unanimous call; followed by the crew on deck; the whole lot. What’s that old saw about a bad apple spoiling the barrel? Well, IMO the whole lot is a stinking, maggot ridden, festering mess. Reform the regulator first; the rest will follow on. When this endless election period is over, buttonhole every independent, lobby the bejasus out of ‘em; appoint an industry ‘tiger team’ to relentlessly pursue just one objective; the reform the regulator and associated agencies: accept nothing less.
It can be done, but it won’t happen through playing nice. The opposition won’t, they’ll cheat, lie and bully their way through the game. We need to match the tactics and be better at it, rougher and dirtier than they – if ‘we’ want to win.
“The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.” Khayyám
Toot toot.
It would be hard to disagree, in the main, with either of the statements above. But then it was hard to disagree with the Rev Forsyth and his crew, the TSBC or even the Senate Pel-Air recommendations. All valid, considered and worthy of direct action.
It would also be hard to disagree with the fact that nothing ‘real’ has been done; the regulator remains a retrogressive mess; the idiot rules are being pumped out and enforced. It is more than reasonable that ‘industry’ folk are annoyed and are wondering why?
One need look no further than the Estimates thread and Hansard to understand where the road blocks are located. The departmental suits sit there, bluff and obfuscate their merry way through tough, awkward questions and leave the building to workshop the oblique answers to QoN without a care in the world. If ‘they’ can stare down a Senate committee and call the ASRR an opinion, the IOS and the like have no chance in hell, no matter how much dust is kicked up, of achieving any meaningful change. United, then perhaps the alphabet soup groups stand a chance, but even then it’s only a slim one. Any settlement will be, at best, a negotiated armistice to gain time. Time to drive in the wedges, divide through exemption and conquer through fear of having those ‘exemptions’ and special ‘arrangements’ cancelled.
It is not the rule set which needs reform, never has been, never will be. If CASA is not reformed, from the top down, then all of the best intentions, meetings or agreements will not change things, not one iota.
Skidmore must go – that is pretty much an unanimous call; followed by the crew on deck; the whole lot. What’s that old saw about a bad apple spoiling the barrel? Well, IMO the whole lot is a stinking, maggot ridden, festering mess. Reform the regulator first; the rest will follow on. When this endless election period is over, buttonhole every independent, lobby the bejasus out of ‘em; appoint an industry ‘tiger team’ to relentlessly pursue just one objective; the reform the regulator and associated agencies: accept nothing less.
It can be done, but it won’t happen through playing nice. The opposition won’t, they’ll cheat, lie and bully their way through the game. We need to match the tactics and be better at it, rougher and dirtier than they – if ‘we’ want to win.
“The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.” Khayyám
Toot toot.