[Peetwo]

ASA & the duplicity of a self-serving bureaucracy -

Quote from Senate Estimates thread:

...Well another turn up for the books, remembering there was a 2nd Supp Estimates hearing, apparently miniscule 4D & Minister 'Pete the pot-plant' Nash have prompted M&M and his motley band of minions, to stick to the AQON requested timetable... - Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development

Not too many surprises so far, although it does appear that CASA & ASA are ducking for cover, while attempting to throw each other under the bus, on Sir A & Harfwit's attempt to save (accelerate me) the ever diminishing OSTF (OneSKY trough fund). More on this ATP funded cluster-duck on the ASA boards very soon...

Referring to the ASA AQON the pdf file looks to have swelled yet another MB...

Slowly plodding thru it but at this stage there appears nothing new, just Harfwit attempting to overload the Senators with reams of repetitive information...

As an ATP one take away from the AQON which I found quite disturbing was the Attach A to AQON 164 for the cost breakdown of apparent services rendered by the ICCPM...

 

It's probably just me but for some reason I find the financial gains by some of the ICCPM group for what appears to be pretty rudimentary business services is quite obscene. Especially when you consider that many of those individuals just so happened to be affiliated with the successful OneSKY contractor Thales..

 While on the subject of the dodgy OneSKY deal and Harfwit's equally dodgy 'Accelerate' program (remembering the ANAO are due to table a report on the 2nd part of their ASA ICCPM/OneSKY audit); I came across a ANAO 'out of sitting' report that is waiting in the Senate 'to be tabled' in-tray...  : The Auditor-General ANAO Report No.33 2016–17 Financial Statement Audit


Now if you go down through the contents at 4.13 you will see that Murky & some of his motley minions feature and in particular (at page 212) Harfwit...  

Here is a couple of quotes relevant to the OneSKY slush fund 'Accelerate' OneSKY trough top-up program and even a small feature on the ASA PFOS cover-up...  

4.13.20 The significant increase in total expenses and total liabilities mainly relates to Airservices’ restructuring program, Accelerate. In 2015–16 Airservices recognised a redundancy provision of $106 million and a provision for other costs associated with the restructure of $15 million. The Accelerate program also resulted in an increase in supplier expenses associated with engaging consultants and an increase in asset write-offs as Airservices redirected efforts to capital projects that met the direction of the Accelerate program. Other increases in total expenses relate to an additional $24 million provided for polyfluorinated chemical (PFC) related activity to support the ongoing scientific, risk-based approach to managing the response to PFCs
at Airservices sites.

4.13.21 Total other comprehensive income represents the actuarial losses associated with the valuation of the defined benefit fund. The movement to a loss position in 2015–16 in comparison

4.13.25 As mentioned above, the ANAO also considers the results of recent performance audits in identifying risks and designing an approach for the financial statements audit.

4.13.26 ANAO Report No.1 2016–17 Procurement of the International Centre for Complex Project Management to Assist on the OneSKY Australia Program was in progress during the 2015–16 audit and was subsequently tabled on 31 August 2016.

4.13.27 The audit objective was to examine whether Airservices had effective procurement arrangements in place, with a particular emphasis on whether consultancy contracts entered into with International Centre for Complex Project Management (ICCPM) in association with the OneSKY Australia project were effectively administered.

4.13.28 Given the nature of the audit objective the observations from the audit had a limited impact on the design of the audit approach for the financial statements audit.

The second phase of the performance audit Conduct of the OneSKY Tender is currently in progress. Consideration will be given to observations from the audit when developing the 2016–17 audit approach.

"...Other increases in total expenses relate to an additional $24 million provided for polyfluorinated chemical (PFC) related activity to support the ongoing scientific, risk-based approach to managing the response to PFCs
at Airservices sites..."

Notice how it is OK for these bureaucrats to take a 'risk-based' approach to issues that maybe (or will be) potentially libellous and embarrassing to the Government department &/or it's agencies; yet when industry beg and plead for the same 'risk-based' approach to be applied to such things as red-tape or mandated industry infrastructure investment (e.g. ADS-B), their concerns a met with yet another platitude, review or obfuscated/time delayed non-answer...


MTF...P2