[Wombat]

Pardon me, but a little question; what would happen if pilots, engineers and the rest of the General Aviation industry decided they had had enough of inquiries, reviews, consultations and suchlike and decided to vote independent, encouraging others to do the same? Might the two major parties decide that they had better reform CASA and rewrite the Act, no matter how much it hurt, if they want to form Government?

You see we are told that electing independents is bad for everyone because of its capacity to produce minority Governments without the votes to enact necessary policy, etc., etc. To which the Aviators observation is that since stable Governments over the last forty years have produced nothing but more and more rotten regulation, perhaps its best we try unstable Government and see if they have an appetite for aviation reform.

Its simple really; you destroy our industry, we destroy yours at the ballot box.

There should not be an independent, no matter how crackpot their policies, that is not worth a ten dollar donation in the hope that it will take a few more votes from the Liberals, Labor and Nationals. Those affected by the industry: Customers, family, aviation minded friends, even grand parents of star struck grand children should be encouraged. Not one independent left unsupported. Not one dollar to the major parties.