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TICK TOCK goes the ICAO audit clock - The Fawcett inquisition 

Just to tidy up and clarify a few issues from my last post. The extract (table) from the DoIRD supplementary submission was actually an attachment to compliment the submission 1 from the Department. The following is the actual submission made after and in reply to the 10 February 2014 JSCOT public hearing:


And these were the actual QON listed from the hearing itself, note the Fawcett 4th QON and the Dept answer:



One of the many OBS I make from the Dept submission and supplementary submissions, is that the Dept seems to be way too reliant on CASA for direction and interpretation on all matters of aviation safety regulation and oversight. Perhaps this is not the wisest course of no-action when you consider the Dept takes the ultimate responsibility for these international air services agreements...

I also find that quite disturbing when you consider that Mr Borthwick lists his role as - General Manager, Aviation Industry Policy. I would have thought that a bureaucrat with those listed responsibilities should be full bottle on all matters pertaining to our international aviation safety commitments as a signatory to ICAO..

Coming back to that 'categories of differences' table:


  My hope is that due to Senator Fawcett's questioning and in collating that data for the sup submission, the Department may have suddenly come to the realisation that Australia is far from being anywhere near adhering to the spirit and intent of most of the ICAO SARPs.

It is worth noting that of the listed 10,696 notified differences from the three countries, 4024 were from Australia, this is a disturbing 38% of the total. But what is more disturbing is the figure in the 'Less protective or partially implemented or not implemented' category (in other words the 'up yours' category... ), which was an UDB 2078, compared to 41 Serbia & 9 Vanuatu...

4024 notified differences for Australia?? Recently I had collated from the 2015 AIP GEN 1.7 SUP that notified differences had grown to a total of 3116. However in actual fact between the 2011 SUP the figure had grown to 4024 but due to the loose ICAO arrangement of only listing NDs every 3 years this was missed. So from my approximate estimate from 2011 to 2014 the NDs had grown by 2500.

This means that in actual fact in the period between 10 February 2014 till November 2015 the Department has managed to reduce the notified differences by 908.

Still got a long way to go but perhaps this highlights more than anything else the impact that the Senator Fawcett inquisition had way back on the 10 February 2014...

These and other questions

Next I will answer my Q/ at #5, this will also shine the spotlight on the primary suspect for authoring the vast majority of over 4000 ICAO notified differences...       


MTF?- What do you reckon...P2