[Kharon]

To get the right response; write the ToR.

4. The objective of the audit was to assess whether the OneSKY tender was conducted so as to provide value with public resources and achieve required timeframes for the effective replacement of the existing air traffic management platforms. To form a conclusion against the audit objective, the following high level criteria were adopted:

• Was the OneSKY tender process based on a sound business case and appropriate governance arrangements?

• Did the tender process result in the transparent selection of a successful tender that provided the best whole-of-life value for money solution at an acceptable level of cost, technical and schedule risk, consistent with the RFT?

• Did negotiations with the successful tenderer result in constructive contractual arrangements that ensured continuity of safe air traffic services, the managed insertion of an optimum system of systems outcome within required timeframes, and demonstrable value?

The audit very carefully picks it’s way around the steaming piles of crud, sidesteps the glaringly obvious and, all in all, does a bloody good job of telling us that the paper trail was in order. Bully! The ‘perception of conflicted interest’ or; where has the money gone questions may be ignored under the clever ToR. You can’t blame the ANAO either; they simply properly did the job asked of them. Was the paper trail ‘kosher’? Course it was. Whostoblame will throw Halfwit under the next bus due down memory lane – after ensuring silence; which is, after all ‘golden’.

GD – “The audit report lost me at the point where the 'Great White Elephant Paper' of 2009 was mentioned.....”

Not me; never got past the ToR; ignore, locate bin - ‘thump’.

But where’s the ‘out’? Well there are a couple of options; the staggering cost being one and new technology being utilised by ‘advanced’ nations with privatised air services another.

P2’s top post – above – makes the necessary points, very clearly, from between the lines reading. Choc Frog mate.

The video there  is one of my all time favorites: immortal lines -  “Any place, any time” - sayeth the Halfwit. The place will be of the Senators choosing; in Fiona Nash’s time. Ye gods, if the minister I worked for gave me a look like the one Nash gifted Halfwit; I’d find another job, not be running around using ‘fighting talk’ to heavy duty Senators. O’Sullivan would knock his block off, without getting off his bar stool. It’s all good jolly fun at the tax payers expense, (unless you are a pot plant owner).

Aye; but taking a knife, to a gunfight ain't the best idea; never was.

Toot toot.