Senator Price is the best, a person of courage and commonsense. Her Country Liberal Party, The Territory Party, would do well to find for her a House of Representatives seat that could lead to her candidacy for PM.
A divisive race based element in our Constitution is a truly extraordinary concept, that it could surface and be treated as a serious possibility is incredible.
But then we remember back to 1988 when Labor Transport Minister Gareth Evans declined the Westminster tradition of Ministerial responsibility by having the administration of aviation handed to a new unelected Commonwealth corporation (now CASA). We all know the disastrous consequences of that unthinking action, the 3/4 destruction of Australia’s once growing General Aviation (GA) industry, of particular detriment to the regions and far flung communities.
Less obvious is the overall loss of GA services, training, maintenance and manufacturing jobs and infrastructure throughout the Nation contributing to loss of that strength so important to our prosperity and National security.
And we remember back to 2009 when another Labor Transport Minister did the same for the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, kicking it out of his Ministry with the stupid idea that the arms of government can be hived off to independent experts who will altruistically carry out the wishes of government with great efficiency at lowest cost with only the most arms length and tentative influence by Parliament.
Poor performance of the new ATSB body was inevitable. At the behest of one Parliamentary Committee, following one ATSB fault ridden accident report, the Canadian Transportation Board produced a highly critical report of its Australian counterpart. Today’s independent ATSB has a very poor reputation in GA circles. Which Minister?
A. Albanese.
Lovely fellow but deluded, head in the stratosphere or buried in sand. Take your pick.
A divisive race based element in our Constitution is a truly extraordinary concept, that it could surface and be treated as a serious possibility is incredible.
But then we remember back to 1988 when Labor Transport Minister Gareth Evans declined the Westminster tradition of Ministerial responsibility by having the administration of aviation handed to a new unelected Commonwealth corporation (now CASA). We all know the disastrous consequences of that unthinking action, the 3/4 destruction of Australia’s once growing General Aviation (GA) industry, of particular detriment to the regions and far flung communities.
Less obvious is the overall loss of GA services, training, maintenance and manufacturing jobs and infrastructure throughout the Nation contributing to loss of that strength so important to our prosperity and National security.
And we remember back to 2009 when another Labor Transport Minister did the same for the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, kicking it out of his Ministry with the stupid idea that the arms of government can be hived off to independent experts who will altruistically carry out the wishes of government with great efficiency at lowest cost with only the most arms length and tentative influence by Parliament.
Poor performance of the new ATSB body was inevitable. At the behest of one Parliamentary Committee, following one ATSB fault ridden accident report, the Canadian Transportation Board produced a highly critical report of its Australian counterpart. Today’s independent ATSB has a very poor reputation in GA circles. Which Minister?
A. Albanese.
Lovely fellow but deluded, head in the stratosphere or buried in sand. Take your pick.