[Sandy Reith]

P7 Tom, agree wholeheartedly with every statement and with your restrained words. Prefer USA rules, they don’t gabble on about Mrs Windsor conferring privileges to her ‘subjects,’ the medieval hangover from when the Monarch held all rights ‘Mon Droit’ and dished out privileges to the favoured at court. We’ve got to improve our democracy with more emphasis on the sovereignty of the individual. You meet community set standards and have the right to fly. This is not a privilege but an earned right to exercise a freedom of individual action.

Will the worm turn? Much as I hate to say it, very doubtful. They could have read all 269 submissions to the 2014 Forsyth review, but its much easier to sit, talk and look like there’s much deep and important deliberations to be seriously digested. Also much safer than telling the useless Minister where to get off and causing a huge ruckus in the Party room.

But hope springs eternal and one day someone in government with a brain, and courage, will make changes. That person or persons maybe watching, probably from a safe distance at the present time.

We will watch the show tomorrow as GI-I grinds away in its galling time wasting manner (GI-I, Government Industries, sub sec. Inquiries). Fiddling while Rome is burning and by later next year the Job Keeper runs out, watch this space.