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Its confirmed DDDD Chester is the most inept miniscule we have ever had...UDB!

Courtesy Fran Kelly this AM via RN:  

Darren Chester accuses union of running a scare campaign over cuts to AirServices
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Broadcast:Tuesday 1 November 2016 7:36AM (view full episode)
 
Image: National Party MP for Gippsland, Darren Chester (ABC/Nick Haggarty) Link to larger image.Image: National Party MP for Gippsland, Darren Chester (ABC/Nick Haggarty)

Pilots have joined the growing number of stakeholders expressing grave concerns about mass job cuts at AirServices Australia, the government-owned organisation responsible for air traffic control and airport emergency services.

900 jobs—almost a quarter of the workforce—are being cut from AirServices in a wholesale restructure designed to slash costs of more than $100 million in coming years.

Virgin Independent Pilots Association says it's a significant reduction which will increase the risk of accidents.

But Minister for Infrastructure and Transport Darren Chester says the union is running a scare campaign.

'It's irresponsible and unfair to the travelling public to be scaring them in this way, rather than pointing out any particular concerns and allowing the agencies responsible to follow them up', he says.

'The process in Australia for meeting the safety of the travelling public is world class and one we should be very proud of'.

Update: For those who missed it Ben Sandilands yesterday conveniently posted a copy of the transcript of the ABC PM program, which apparently the other Aunty no longer publishes - : - see HERE. 

PT also adds a 'nail in the head' postscript...

..The Minister’s professed lack of knowledge about the earlier radar issues at Sydney Airport (not to mention ATC issues between the adjacent Melbourne and Essendon airports) is horrifying. His two immediate predecessors were criticised for many things, but they were acutely aware of a number of issues concerning the competency of frontline Airservices staff because of training and fatigue related issues, which were highlighted by the ATSB in scathing reports into lapses in aircraft separation in Australian skies.

Those instances have declined, fortunately, in the last two years, because of the heat Mr Chester’s predecessors applied to Airservices, and the ATSB’s unusual candour when it came to the circumstances of some of those serious ATC incidents.

The RN interview this morning raises concerns that the current minister responsible for aviation safety may not have read all of the files, or that be believes anything that the bureaucracy decides to tell him.

When the executive branch takes the integrity of the administrative branch for granted, good government is compromised. It’s to be hoped that Minister Chester knows this and will act accordingly when it comes to putting aviation safety ahead of broad government policy dictates to slash costs...

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