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Oversight or lack there of - Part II

Excellent stuff Mr PB please keep it coming...

Still trying to piece together the bureaucratic trail of obfuscation and dodgy deals related to the Ministerial approval of the DFO development.

The FOI - PDF: 15569 KB - is a fascinating document and would appear to be cleverly constructed as to paint CASA in a bad light of zero care, zero responsibility. This is highlighted by the fact that word weasel confection from CASA (Acting Executive Manager of Corporate Affairs Ms Nicola Hinder) features, without any apparent connection, on the last page of the FOI released document...     

Besides the letter from Ms Hinder, the following is the sum total excerpts that highlight CASA's input as the premier government regulatory body responsible for aviation safety in this country. 

From the Department & Ministerial sign off page (pg 2 of the FOI PDF):

 
Page 5 of the FOI:

PB: "..Runway 26 strip width from runway centre is shown as 90m; should be 150m. Runway 35 is shown as 75m; should be 150m also. EAPL have used the runway gable markers as the edge of the strip; it should be the overall strip...

..This a line projecting from the runway centreline at 14.3 degrees until it intercepts the inner horizontal surface at 45m. If you work it out it's around 197m from runway centre. Then draw a line down to the edge of the overall strip. That's what the transitional surface should look like. Look at the drawing below; nothing like it.."
P2 Q/ What about Runway 17/35, how come CASA didn't survey/check the transitional surfaces of that runway?  

Attachment G (page 234 FOI PDF):

The last two extracts is as close as you are going to get to a signed confession that CASA signed off on the building of the DFO...

Still digging but in the meantime here is bit of historical scuttlebutt from the dodgy history of the government airport lease agreements - note who was the DOTARS Ag Deputy secretary at the time...  

JOINT COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS AND AUDIT

Reference: Review of Auditor-General’s reports, fourth quarter 2003-04

MONDAY, 7 MARCH 2005

CANBERRA

BY AUTHORITY

 http://www.aph.gov.au/binaries/hansard/j.../j8171.pdf

 
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