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Timeline of Australian aviation safety regulatory embuggerance - 1988 till ???? 

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Potted history of Australian aviation safety regulation over 3 decades – Lead Balloon

"..In short, the maritime safety regulator in Australia just gets on and does stuff in accordance with the international conventions whereas the aviation safety regulator in Australia spends its days cogitating over whether it knows better than what’s in ICAO SARPS. Lucrative for the cogitators; not so the regulated..."

Much like the PelAir TOE (timeline of embuggerance references: HERE & HERE ) eventually AP will endeavour to put together a TOE for the last 30 years of 'Iron Ring' big "R" regulator embuggerance of the industry...    

In the meantime working backwards with some factual OBS for the last half decade...  

Starting with Airports and aviation safety - keeping in mind this was 2 years before the tragic DFO accident at YMEN - the following was part of a speech that Senator Fawcett made in 2015 in the Senate chamber...  

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Just think for a moment if the Parliament had of embraced; or tried to understand the 'safety' message behind the Fawcett speech maybe (just maybe -   ) the potential for the YMEN DFO accident may have been diminished through an identified safety risk which could have been subsequently safety risk mitigated under the Australian (M&M written) ICAO Annex 19 SSP - just saying...    
 
Next we go back 5 years, to which I will use an Aunty Pru archived reference - Vol IV Pprune Senate Inquiry thread - from the original extremely popular and inexplicably closed PPRUNE Senate Inquiry thread.

Relevant extract from page 91...  :

#1462

The ICAO Audit Report available at the link in post #1456 is astonishing.

If that is the report to which Mr McCormick was referring when he said the major issue wasthat CASA did not have sufficient training in place for the inspectorate, I wonder whether he’s actually read all 98 pages.

I’ve merely skimmed the report, but a few of the Findings struck me as particularly ironic, in the context of the Pel Air accident.

Audit Finding OPS/03:

The Australian regulations do not require air operators certificate (AOC) holders and
applicants to ensure that, in the event that an aeroplane becomes involved in an accident or incident, all related flight recorder records and associated flight recorders are preserved to the extent possible and are retained in safe custody pending their disposition as determined in accordance with ICAO Annex 13. …

Australia agrees with this finding.

This issue is being addressed in the development of CASR Part 91. …

Develop and promulgate CASR Part 91. … By 31 December 2009. …

Audit Finding OPS/11:

There are no regulations in Australia that require air operators to implement a safety
management system acceptable to the State or to clearly define the direct accountability for safety on the part of senior management. …


Australia agrees with the finding. CASA is currently taking steps to introduce a requirement for AOC holders to implement Safety Management Systems in accordance with ICAO timeframes. …


CASA will amend Civil Aviation Order Section 82 to incorporate requirements for AOC holders to implement Safety Management Systems. …

By 31 December 2008 CASA will incorporate operator requirements into regulations currently under development (CASR Part 119). …

By 31 December 2009. …

Audit Finding AIG/01:

Funding for aviation accident investigations …

Under the ATSB guidelines, occurrences that may fit the ICAO Annex 13’s definition of an aircraft accident or incident may not be investigated. Although the ATSB submits a notification of these occurrences to ICAO in accordance with ICAO Annex 13 provisions, the ATSB does not submit a preliminary report and/or an accident data report identifying contributing safety factors or probable cause. …

    
Read it and weep - 

MTF...P2