[Sandy Reith]

While it's true that a regulatory environment should provide for safe operations it should also provide for efficiency. The Act used to provide for both. As has been put many times safety cannot be an aim isolated from reasonable risk. We expect a greater degree of safety through experience and advances in technology and engineering all of which will come more quickly if government would take it's jackboot off the neck of GA. Progress does not rely on government edict but on self preservation, public expectations, business imperatives and, importantly, risk profiles developed by insurance companies.

Regarding Trans Tasman Mutual Recognition the idea would not be to wait for harmonisation but for aircraft registration and maintenance and pilot and AOC qualifications to be recognised fully for operations in Australia. We don't have a problem with the Qantas owned NZ company JetConnect operating here (in Qantas livery), what could be any real objection?

Another question;  if "promote and foster aviation" is written into the charter for Air Services Australia, as was told to a recent AOPA conference at Avalon by CEO Jason Harfield, why not the same for CASA?

The current model of governance cannot work, irrespective of who next gets the Dashing Rehashing job.

Parliament must make a change to the Modus Operandi, and,
"Statement of Expectations" must go to be replaced with Ministerial Directions