[Sandy Reith]

The Forsyth review commissioned by the Commonwealth only six years ago garnered two hundred and sixty nine submissions from the public. This makes the thirty to the present Senate inquiry look rather miserable. One might ask why so few submissions today. To those of us that have submitted twice and made numerous representations to the Commonwealth through our MPs and officialdom the answer is simple. People tire of wasting their time and money.

Meanwhile in the heavily insulated fortress of Aviation Hearse (House) in Can’tberra the CASASTROPHE has continued unperturbed and the bureaucratic injury by ever more unworkable regulations and fee gouging to General Aviation (GA) continues to put people and businesses out of work. At the same time valuable flying services have all but stopped or are but a shadow of their former selves and the ever increasing heavy criminal sanctioned environment of CASA’s mountain of regulations are working steadily to even further kill what’s left of GA.

Adding insult to injury, and this largely but not completely out of CASA’s remit, the continued loss of Commonwealth owned airport property to inappropriate development such as factories and shopping centres is also on the march, nary a whisper of concern is evident from Parliament and the Minister stands back, Mac Do Nothing.