Pressure – on the ruling class?
Perhaps the unrestrained power, money and a secure life, free of the perils of 'the real world' and publicly funded testing of illicit drugs (safety support) for the lost weekend is beginning to set the trend in our capitol. Or; just maybe, our man in the boat' is just searching for reprobate Kangaroo's taking a bath in the Canberra puddle; to rescue with perhaps and a convenient 'photo op' close at hand.....
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Then perhaps, just maybe, Sen. Alex Antic having actually nailed it down; that - “the un-elected are running this nation”, (or words to that effect) and noting that 'something' must be done. This 'must' should ring so many bells as to even wake the dead (Cabinet and Mandarins) for it is so incontrovertibly bloody true. Alas, nothing will be done; indeed we shall probably see more of it; for it is the 'get-out-of-jail' card for the minister responsible.
- HERE - courtesy of Sky news.
“A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.”
This blatant avoidance of duty may evade the ordinary politician with fingers in ears; or, the hoi-polloi (media and anyone unaffected). But aviation has been a victim of this 'situation' since the notion of Quango emerged and effectively removed responsibility, influence, interest and control from the ministerial desk. Proof of this 'disconnection' is readily (if tediously) available from the Hansard record of proceedings within Senate Estimates and 'inquiry'. One can (if so inclined) map and track the evasion of ministerial responsibility from the Seaview or the Lockhart River events. It is not a difficult process. Pick a question, note the date. Find the answer, note the date. Then try to find a result, change, action or even a follow up question to progress. Good luck with that quest.
Track back, just a few short years back in time to the Angel Flight debacle, the 2020 'inquiry' and subsequent Estimates. Between that lot, there are about 100 serious questions asked by 'Senate Committee' to which no satisfactory answers of substance have been provided. Not only have important questions remained unanswered; but neither have the answers been pursued to a conclusion or outcome. Then count up, on one hand, the number of direct ministerial 'involvements' and effective changes.
I wonder, has any minister ever added up the total cost of the regulatory reform we had to have; in years and dollars. It is an extraordinary number; a massive expense to provide what is probably the worst, non aligned, incomprehensible rule set on the planet. Has this expenditure produced any significant improvement in 'safety' or productivity, or increased revenue returned to the nations coffers or of any benefit to the public - who paid for it all?
J@T - “I still longingly look back to the Air Navigation Regulations were:-
(a) the one booklet was about a half inch thick. (b) rarely changed © we all could parrot off chapter and verse for a host of regulatory requirements - trying to do that now would be folly in the extreme. (d) the Air Navigation Orders were comparatively easy to navigate and find stuff. (courtesy PP)..
Yet there are savings there; we could save the expense of Estimates; seriously, why bother? If the last exhibition was of any practical or intrinsic value to this nation, made one iota of difference to anything bar the debit side of the public ledger; I'll eat my hat.
“Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.”
Aye well; rant over, it just baffles me though. How did a thing which is supposed to provide a 'service' to the industry end up dictating terms and essentially running it develop from an administrator to a despotic monolith, beyond the reach of the minister, parliament or Senate?
Enough; DT has left a list (do or perish) on the dartboard. Best crack on, in the pursuit of peace, harmony and freshly baked scones for afternoon tea -
Selah..
Perhaps the unrestrained power, money and a secure life, free of the perils of 'the real world' and publicly funded testing of illicit drugs (safety support) for the lost weekend is beginning to set the trend in our capitol. Or; just maybe, our man in the boat' is just searching for reprobate Kangaroo's taking a bath in the Canberra puddle; to rescue with perhaps and a convenient 'photo op' close at hand.....
Then perhaps, just maybe, Sen. Alex Antic having actually nailed it down; that - “the un-elected are running this nation”, (or words to that effect) and noting that 'something' must be done. This 'must' should ring so many bells as to even wake the dead (Cabinet and Mandarins) for it is so incontrovertibly bloody true. Alas, nothing will be done; indeed we shall probably see more of it; for it is the 'get-out-of-jail' card for the minister responsible.
- HERE - courtesy of Sky news.
“A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.”
This blatant avoidance of duty may evade the ordinary politician with fingers in ears; or, the hoi-polloi (media and anyone unaffected). But aviation has been a victim of this 'situation' since the notion of Quango emerged and effectively removed responsibility, influence, interest and control from the ministerial desk. Proof of this 'disconnection' is readily (if tediously) available from the Hansard record of proceedings within Senate Estimates and 'inquiry'. One can (if so inclined) map and track the evasion of ministerial responsibility from the Seaview or the Lockhart River events. It is not a difficult process. Pick a question, note the date. Find the answer, note the date. Then try to find a result, change, action or even a follow up question to progress. Good luck with that quest.
Track back, just a few short years back in time to the Angel Flight debacle, the 2020 'inquiry' and subsequent Estimates. Between that lot, there are about 100 serious questions asked by 'Senate Committee' to which no satisfactory answers of substance have been provided. Not only have important questions remained unanswered; but neither have the answers been pursued to a conclusion or outcome. Then count up, on one hand, the number of direct ministerial 'involvements' and effective changes.
I wonder, has any minister ever added up the total cost of the regulatory reform we had to have; in years and dollars. It is an extraordinary number; a massive expense to provide what is probably the worst, non aligned, incomprehensible rule set on the planet. Has this expenditure produced any significant improvement in 'safety' or productivity, or increased revenue returned to the nations coffers or of any benefit to the public - who paid for it all?
J@T - “I still longingly look back to the Air Navigation Regulations were:-
(a) the one booklet was about a half inch thick. (b) rarely changed © we all could parrot off chapter and verse for a host of regulatory requirements - trying to do that now would be folly in the extreme. (d) the Air Navigation Orders were comparatively easy to navigate and find stuff. (courtesy PP)..
Yet there are savings there; we could save the expense of Estimates; seriously, why bother? If the last exhibition was of any practical or intrinsic value to this nation, made one iota of difference to anything bar the debit side of the public ledger; I'll eat my hat.
“Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.”
Aye well; rant over, it just baffles me though. How did a thing which is supposed to provide a 'service' to the industry end up dictating terms and essentially running it develop from an administrator to a despotic monolith, beyond the reach of the minister, parliament or Senate?
Enough; DT has left a list (do or perish) on the dartboard. Best crack on, in the pursuit of peace, harmony and freshly baked scones for afternoon tea -
Selah..