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EWH catching up on AMROBA SOE support -   

Via the Yaffa:

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Somebody in Canberra does Care: AMROBA

4 February 2022

Ken Cannane, Executive Director of the Aviation Maintenance Repair and Overhaul Business Association (AMROBA) this week said the Statement of Expectations (SoE) issued to CASA shows that someone in Canberra cares about general aviation.

Deputy Prime MInister and Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development Barnaby Joyce issued the SoE in mid January, outlining CASA's obligations as a regulator for the next 18 months.

The SoE contained several initiatives and directives that are thought hold significant benefits for general aviation, which Cannane believes is a landmark moment in aviation advocacy.

"Australia Day 2022 will be remembered by our members as the day the government at long last took affirmative action and provided a Statement of Expectations that addresses most issues that AMROBA has raised over the last decade or so," he said in a communique to AMROBA members.

"The DPM’s staff need a bit of support from industry for their effort. They listened. Considering past SoEs issued by ministers, this is the best SoE that I have seen. It is based on getting the matters we–and other associations–raised, actioned and properly addressed plus a lot more transparency.

" ... somebody within government does care."

Cannane went on to say that the SoE removed excuses for bureaucrats to do nothing.

"Government, the Department and CASA’s Board need to understand, adopt and implement these expectations, as elucidated in the Explanatory Statement, for general aviation and the engineering disciplines of design, maintenance and manufacture so we may partake in both the domestic and global aviation market," he said.

"CASA’s CEO Pip Spence now has no external impediment–except her own staff–to not change the regulatory philosophy under these expectations."

Cannane highlighted some of the positive aspects of the SoE including:

• requiring the CASA board to publish meeting minutes on the website
  
• maintaining consistency with international obligations, including ICAO
  
• establishing regulatory oversight of airport development
  
• providing the minister with a work plan
  
• publishing exposure drafts of regulation before presenting it to the minister.
  

"It is not a hard task to reduce the regulatory burden on aviation participants," Cannane said, "it is simply a matter of following the FARs and removing silos and economic restrictive regulations. Most have been created over the last 30 years.

"We must at least say well done to the bureaucracy involved in developing this Statement of Expectations and Explanatory Statement.

"We now know clearly what we expect from CASA this year, let’s hope they can deliver."

CASA is expected to reply to the minister with a Letter of Intent in April.

The Statement of Expectations can be downloaded from the Federal Register of Legislation website.

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Plus from LMH:

Ken Cannane's unfettered optimism over the CASA SoE carries with it a very clear message: Cannane believes Barnaby Joyce is on our side. He's not alone in his faith; several other aviation advocates who spend their hours slogging around the halls of Canberra are expressing similar sentiments. With the Aviation Recovery Framework and the CASA SoE providing evidence that their faith is well-placed, you can't blame them for hailing Joyce as somewhat of a messiah. No other minister has made such in-roads to the problem in such a short time as he has done. In a contrary position, there are also advocates who prefer to reserve their accolades until things have been done and not just written. Too often aviation's optimists have had their sunny outlooks shaded by an overcast of promises that weren't backed by actions, understandably causing them to suspect more of the same every time another promise is aired. Who can remember their demenour in the weeks following the release of the Aviation Safety Regulation Review in 2014? Those were heady times when we thought everything was going to be fixed. So is Cannane wasting his optimism on the promises offered by more documents? I would say "yes" were it not for the many others who are sharing his sentiments at the moment. For the first time, people are believing the words cometh before the actions ... unless Barnaby Joyce finds himself Shadow Minister come late May.

Slight drift here but the following segment from last night's Peta Credlin show IMO provides a strong incentive for DPM Barnaby as the responsible Minister to hold the CASA and Department of Infrastructure bureaucracy to account - 

The public does not appreciate governments that cannot reign in 'out-of-control agencies'

The public does not appreciate centre-right governments who cannot reign in “out-of-control agencies,” pushing “left-wing causes” with taxpayers’ money, according to Sky News host Peta Credlin.
 
The comments come after it was revealed Australia Council for the Arts allocated scholarships for artists who perform lewd acts, including so-called “bum puppetry.”
 
Ms Credlin says Arts Minister Paul Fletcher response to the controversy “typifies so much that's wrong with the current federal government.”
 
“What's the point of a minister if he can't or won't do anything? 
 
“Why is Paul Fletcher being paid $360,000 a year if he has no say over how the Australia Council spends its $215 million in taxpayer funding every year? 
 
“And what's the point of electing what's supposed to be a centre-right government if taxpayers' money continues to be wasted on left-wing causes?”

(Note: That segment in less than 24 hrs as already 17.5 k views and accumulated over 400 comments ) 

MTF...P2