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Juan Browne review of AO-2023-008 prelim etc. - ?? 

Via the blancoliro YouTube channel:  

On that exemption?? 

Remember this from, a month before Rob Stakeholder Walker signed that exemption...  

Walker to take over Oversight as Crawford departs CASA



Executive Manager Stakeholder Engagement Rob Walker is set to take over the Regulatory Oversight Division in a new CASA structure that has also seen Group Executive Manager – Aviation Graeme Crawford leave the regulator after his position was abolished.

Walker has run the Stakeholder Engagement division since March 2016 and has been instrumental in reforming consultation processes and establishing the Aviation Safety Advisory Panel and Technical Working Groups.

The new structure has been put in place by Director of Aviation and CEO Pip Spence in order to flatten the management structure and focus all divisions of CASA on aviation safety.

All executive managers will now report directly to Spence with the Regulatory Oversight Division (ROD), National Operations and Standards, and Group Transformations and Safety Systems joining the CASA executive committee.

In a statement handed to all CASA staff on 5 October, Spence explained the reasoning behind the changes.

"An 'aviation group' with its own executive team implies a split from the rest of the organisation and doesn't properly acknowledge that was are all here to work together in the interest of aviation safety.

"At times, this has impeded organisational efficiency and made it more difficult for our whole executive to achieve alignment on important issues."

Spence acknowledged the work of Crawford pointing our his contribution to regulatory reform and his tenure as Acting Director of Aviation Safety following the retirement of Shane Carmody late last year.

Sources within CASA have said that previous ROD Executive Manager Craig Martin is due to leave the regulator by the end of October.

Ah yes the Board and Pip Spence decision to flatten the executive management structure...

However you've got to question what they were thinking when they decided to put a career stakeholder engagement bureaucrat, with absolutely zero industry experience in such matters, as the executive manager of the regulatory oversight division??

And then less than 3 weeks into the job he signs off on the Coulson Exemption.

Given this was a Federal Govt contract and also the political sensitivity around bushfires at the time, it would be fair to assume that the former EM of the ROD, Craig Martin had been personally overseeing the processing of this exemption. Then as a passing strange coincidence three months later CM ends up in the position as the Chief Operating Officer at Coulson...

Finally I refer you back to the "K" Blah_wich rumour post: Of the winnowing of Wheat from Chaff.

A timeline of coincidence or a timeline of convenience?? 

MTF? - Indeed much!..P2   

   
PS: Next - What that exemption actually meant; how it would have been processed; and what has happened to it now (IE has it been incorporated into the COM)??