With the greatest respect to the august and venerated members of the BRB, I wish to point out that you have failed to take into account Einstein’s theory of Relativity.
Not Albert Einstein, but Fred Einstein at the Steam Packet Hotel. His immortal theory; “ a moment with your backside on a hot stove seems to last forever while the same time in a session with Flo on the couch seems to last only a few seconds”.
CASA, the Department and politicians do not count time in days and months like mere mortal pilots, nor business owners who reckon in financial years, no, they reckon time in ‘Parliaments”. By that relative clock, it is already too late to reform anything because the next election is due soon.
Members may know that if there is a change of Government at that time, all working papers, briefs and suchlike are hoovered up and put into storage for the statutory thirty years. So your new Minister starts with a completely blank slate apart from published, public documents. All the dirt has been swept under the rug. The new Minister arrives literally knowing nothing about what went before.
So the Minister, CASA and the Department are playing for time. Forsyth is a Parliament ago. Shortly it will be irrelevant ancient history. Same with Glen Buckley, Jabiru, Bristell and goodness knows what else. They are lost in the mists of time. This is especially so if we play fast and loose with the public records act - critical documents, usually incriminating ones that explain who knew what and when, seem to vanish.
Being cynical, the role of a good public servant can ensure that the Minister doesn’t find the dirty linen until the next election. This is not too hard since the Minister needs at least two years to learn his job and the last year is spent with an eye on elections…
So all CASA and the Department have to do is to deny, obfuscate and delay for about another six months and we all start again from square one. Bristell, Buckley, Jabiru, AMROBA, AOPA, etc.will have to start again to try and educate a deliberately clueless Minister.
……..and next time there is an enquiry or review there will only be 25 submissions.
Not Albert Einstein, but Fred Einstein at the Steam Packet Hotel. His immortal theory; “ a moment with your backside on a hot stove seems to last forever while the same time in a session with Flo on the couch seems to last only a few seconds”.
CASA, the Department and politicians do not count time in days and months like mere mortal pilots, nor business owners who reckon in financial years, no, they reckon time in ‘Parliaments”. By that relative clock, it is already too late to reform anything because the next election is due soon.
Members may know that if there is a change of Government at that time, all working papers, briefs and suchlike are hoovered up and put into storage for the statutory thirty years. So your new Minister starts with a completely blank slate apart from published, public documents. All the dirt has been swept under the rug. The new Minister arrives literally knowing nothing about what went before.
So the Minister, CASA and the Department are playing for time. Forsyth is a Parliament ago. Shortly it will be irrelevant ancient history. Same with Glen Buckley, Jabiru, Bristell and goodness knows what else. They are lost in the mists of time. This is especially so if we play fast and loose with the public records act - critical documents, usually incriminating ones that explain who knew what and when, seem to vanish.
Being cynical, the role of a good public servant can ensure that the Minister doesn’t find the dirty linen until the next election. This is not too hard since the Minister needs at least two years to learn his job and the last year is spent with an eye on elections…
So all CASA and the Department have to do is to deny, obfuscate and delay for about another six months and we all start again from square one. Bristell, Buckley, Jabiru, AMROBA, AOPA, etc.will have to start again to try and educate a deliberately clueless Minister.
……..and next time there is an enquiry or review there will only be 25 submissions.