[thorn bird]

"The Government is committed to maintaining a safe aviation environment for all
Australians."

The key words here are "The Government".

So just who are the Government?

Do the Government serve the people, or do the people serve the Government?

People talk about the Canberra bubble and having spent a few days inside that so called bubble I developed a strange impression that there is some merit in that description. People there seem to me to be "different" to ordinary Australians one finds out in country towns, in the bush if you like, or in the working heart of our cities and regions. The people who live and work in Canberra live in an artificial world, Canberra after all would not exist as a city, only for the fact it was created because of interstate rivalry between the two most powerful "Colonies" at the time of federation. The whole place has an artificial feel to it, its citizens imbued with a sense of entitlement and superiority, them outside the bubble, us within it, them outside are there to serve us and keep us in a style to which we have grown accustomed almost a modern day Feudal system, Canberra being the Castle, housing the aristocracy, those outside, the serfs who toil to serve the castle.

Our parliament has become in reality a farce, its occupants playing a modern day game of thrones. Listening to question time one can see the constant self serving jousting, verbal, point scoring exchanges over irrelevancies, while "real issues", issues that affect the whole of the nation, get ignored and left to the bureaucrats to administer as they see fit.

It would be interesting to examine exactly how much per hour our parliament costs us to operate, I think the figure would startle us all especially when one considers just how much time gets wasted on irrelevancies. In business time is money, no different in government.

"Passengers, whether fare paying or not, are generally less able to determine the level of risk involved in the service they are boarding and rely on the Government to ensure an appropriate level of aviation safety is maintained."

What a demeaning statement. It displays a certain arrogance we see so often in Australia, "all the rest of the world is wrong, only we are right" The people are ignorant and stupid and need the protection of the "Castle". Who decides what is "appropriate"? Price more than anything is the main driver behind the majority of those that utilise aviation.

"The Government supports CASA, as Australia’s civil aviation safety regulator, using its expertise and professional judgement to fulfil that responsibility..."

What expertise?

What professional judgement?