[Sandy Reith]

“The committee has agreed to extend the inquiry further to allow it to consider the evidence
received and to conclude its deliberations. It will therefore table an interim report on
30 March 2022, and a final report on 20 October 2022. The committee submits this letter to
satisfy its commitment to report back to the Senate.

Yours sincerely

Senator Susan McDonald“

There we have it, a monumental cop out. A lack of courage to make a real report, after missing the interim report, after an incredibly long two years of supposed inquiry, in spite of all of the material from the ASSR Forsyth report of 2014, 269 submissions. Has the Committee considered those submissions?

We’ve been offered a truly feeble non excuse to leave off until October by saying ‘consider evidence received,’ which isn’t true in the sense that the RRAT is still open for submissions. How many years and how many submissions do you need? I sent to the Committee a few hundred comments from my Change.org petition of 2016. That petition was supported by three thousand signatories asking government to halt the bureaucratic destruction of General Aviation, and the Committee has some 60 submissions across the two years of it’s existence.

They have not, and will not, receive any more submissions that will uncover anything different, or yield any further pertinent information that will change the magnitude or quality of the problems that bedevil GA, or change the nature or course of reforms that are desperately needed. We know, and the Committee knows, or should know now unless they are completely brain dead, the reforms that are urgently required. It’s not hard it just requires insistence on the immediate start on reforms. Car driver medicals, independent instructors are two easy reforms that could start to turn the tide. And a statement that the independent corporate model of administration must give way to Ministerial responsibility in the Westminster tradition. The only long term structure that can work, a democratic necessity.

Meanwhile, fiddle while Rome burns, the RRAT abrogates its responsibility by inaction. Denying the good governance that is owing to the Australian public.

“Yours (In)Sincerely”

Thanks for nothing Senator McDonald and same to your fellow do-nothing spineless Committee Members. Excuse the rudeness but you do now know how catastrophic is government’s extraordinarily inappropriate regulatory environment to General Aviation and the shocking treatment of individuals such as Glen Buckley for whom you have done nothing. How rude is that?