[thorn bird]

Time was up twenty years ago P2.

Has anything really changed in the past twenty years? Is it any safer today than it was 54 years ago when I first stepped into the old tiger with my dad in the back? One thing I do know is it was a hell of a lot less stressful back then, and a hell of a lot of fun, the funs all gone now, the stress increasing with every new raft of bullshit masquerading as regulation churning out of the regulatory factory. 54 years ago as a pimply faced adolescent your examiners were mentors, you respected them and learnt from them, Today's batch you wouldn't piss on if they were on fire.

What stands out to me from the gifting of our airports for big banks to make a fortune in tax free dollars or development sharks to carve up our secondaries, to the regulatory debacle, $300 odd million down and plenty more to go. To the ASA corruption to the ATSB ineptitude the same four or five names the same signatures keep appearing, every misstep of the way.

It beggars belief they can get away with it.