[thorn bird]

It occurs to me Sandy, that "We are all in this together" is the most incongruous statement ever made, maybe indicative of just how divided we are as an industry or more broadly we are as a nation, because for sure we are not all in this together.

A government, be it a democracy or totalitarian, does not rule without consensus, either by the people in the first case, or by whatever agency can threaten and cow the population. As we have seen through history, when the majority of the people get really pissed off your friendly neighbourhood despot doesn't last long, not too many tyrants get to ride off into the sunset.

As K alludes, which I have been trying to get in peoples heads, divided we lose, united we win. I just don't understand why in Australia, by and large, competing ego's continually frustrate all efforts to reach consensus and attack the real enemy instead of each other.

CAsA of course, as good tyrants do, manipulates this very well.

As far as GA goes the "We are all in this together" is bitter sweet. As the industry slowly collapses under the weight of bureaucratic impositions of CAsA and those of the Covid panic, our oppressors sit happily in their bubble, drawing full salary and all the perks. Not a single person within CAsA has sacrificed a brass farthing throughout the pandemic. Given the ever diminishing industry, how could any reasonable person say they are gainfully employed, especially when they are paid vastly more than their industry equivalents.

We as an industry are paying for our executioners to kill us, and they are not even doing that humanely, we are being killed by a thousand regulatory cuts.