[Sandy Reith]

I've just been reading the ATSB updates on the updates, the number of same does not matter. What is clear is that the expected date of release of the final report to the public is always a few months hence. The longer the better because people die, get dementia, become careless and forgetful and generally tire of the whole sustained obscurant process. Spin it out long enough and even some of the instigating Senators will retire. This is what to expect out of 400,000 Can'tberrans from the most stratified, socialistic and souless capital city in the developed world. This no freehold, perfectly planned black hole tax sucking vortex of deceit and obfuscation is completely at odds with free enterprise, honest and careful work or sense of duty to the greater good. I'm afraid it is not just our aviation 'corporates', but other departments and Commonwealth bodies that I have had the misfortune to deal with. Sorry to say. The good old days were not that good but were much better in many ways. As Arthur Caldwell, then leader of the Labor Party and an honourable man, said, in farewell to Menzies, that in the Commonwealth public service under Menzies there was never even a hint of corruption.