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Senate Inquiry into General Aviation announced -    

Via the RRAT Committee webpages: 

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Australia's general aviation industry

Under Standing Order 25 (2) (a), the Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation Committee will inquire into and report on the current state of Australia's general aviation industry, with particular reference to aviation in rural, regional and remote Australia.

The committee will consider the operation and effectiveness of the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) and other relevant aviation agencies, with particular reference to:

a) the legislative and regulatory framework underpinning CASA's aviation safety management functions, including:
  (i) the application of the Civil Aviation Act 1988 and the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 to Australia's     aviation sector, and whether the legislation is fit for purpose;
 (ii) the safety and economic impacts, and relative risks, of CASA's aviation safety frameworks; and
 the engagement of CASA with other relevant Australian Government agencies;
  (iii) the immediate and long-term social and economic impacts of CASA decisions on small businesses,   agricultural operations and individuals across regional, rural and remote Australia;

(b) CASA's processes and functions, including:
  (i) its maintenance of an efficient and sustainable Australian aviation industry, including viable general aviation   and training sectors;
  (ii) the efficacy of its engagement with the aviation sector, including via public consultation; and
  (iii) its ability to broaden accessibility to regional aviation across Australia, considering the associated benefits   of an expanded aviation sector; and
  (iv) any related matters.

The committee will present its interim report on or before the final sitting day of December 2020, and will present its final report on or before the final sitting day of November 2021.

Committee Secretariat contact:
Committee Secretary
Senate Standing Committees on Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport
PO Box 6100
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600

Phone: +61 2 6277 3511
Fax: +61 2 6277 5811
rrat.sen@aph.gov.au

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And via Oz Flying:

Senate to launch Two-year Inquiry into CASA and GA
3 December 2019
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The Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation Committee (RRAT) will conduct a two-year inquiry into the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) to gauge the effectiveness of regulation it has applied to general aviation in the past 10 years.

RRAT Chair, Nationals Senator Susan McDonald from Queensland, is believed to be set to make a formal announcement in the next day or so.

Senator McDonald said the aim of the inquiry is to establish how regulation imposed on GA had achieved CASA’s stated aim of balancing safety, relative risk, and economic costs.

“[the inquiry] will look at the social and economic impacts of CASA decisions on charter businesses, helicopter mustering, agricultural operations and maintenance operators across regional, rural and remote Australia,” she said.

“We want to examine the relevance of the Civil Aviation Act in relation to maintaining the highest safety standards while encouraging general aviation and training.

“I have spoken with participants in the general aviation industry who feel the past 10 years of rulemaking by CASA has not achieved the stated aim of balance.

“This inquiry will look at people’s concerns with CASA and deliver interim findings in December 2020, followed by a final report in November 2021.”

Senator McDonald has established herself as a champion of aviation in Australia, most famously crossing the floor to vote with independent senators on the Community Service Flight legislation disallowance motion in October. McDonald was the only coalition member to do so. She was elected to the Senate for QLD in the 2019 Federal Election and made RRAT Chair in July.

At the time of writing, the inquiry had not been listed on the RRAT website, so information on public hearings and submission is not yet available.

Read more at http://www.australianflying.com.au/lates...RR1fVUE.99

Via Sen McDonald's FB page yesterday...

Celebrate civil aviation

Senator Susan McDonald

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*HAPPY CIVIL AVIATION DAY*


Civil aviation keeps regional Australia connected to the cities, and to the world. So today it is fitting to thank and congratulate all those civilian pilots, engineers, crew, and other support staff.

I have also launched a Senate Inquiry in to regulation impacts on general aviation and I invite anyone with an interest to make a submission.

Click this link for details: https://www.aph.gov.au/…/Rural_and_Regional…/GeneralAviation

MTF...P2 

Ps How to fix it, via Para 377 (Gobble's Kiwi bro -  )

Via the UP:

Dissecting a turd

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Agreed. How many enquiries has it been now? Never any real outcome. The entire Australian aviation community know they are a basket case. Around $500m spent on a regulatory reform program that commenced in 1988 and is still not finished. They have been a dysfunctional utopia unto themselves since then. An organisation who thrives on bureaucracy, adding red tape, destroying individuals and businesses, wasting taxpayer money, adding rules and laws while repealing none, and the list goes on. CASA has been a loss making, economy destroying/inhibiting nightmare. Frankenstein has morphed into a beast of biblical proportions. They have cost the economy billions and will continue to do so. Save the Government our taxpayer money and do the following items as a starting point. And considering that Morrison isn’t afraid of dismantling and axing Departments and their non-performing Secretaries and bringing back former reputable bureaucrats to head up the changes, now is the perfect time to act;

• Appoint an interim Director to disband and replace the Board, the DAS (Carmody), Aleck, Anastasi, Crawford and the regional managers and start a fresh. A 2 year restructuring under a temporary position - Dick Smith to head it up.
  
  
• Put together a large disciplined team that will copy the NZ ruleset and implement a 3 year introduction program to bring those rules into place in Australia. Set milestones, goals and accountability.
  
  
• Assign a serious budget to undertake this reform of what was formerly CASA, into its new identity.
  
  
• Create an entirely new framework implemented even down to a corporate uniform which identifies them as what they are meant to be - regulators and public servants who are accountable under the public service act.
  
  
• CASA needs to be a Regulator, not a facilitator. Yet it needs to understand its impacts and that its decision making processes cannot unjustly or unfairly disadvantage businesses and the economy. It cannot act as a bully, interpret laws in a manner it chooses, and it has to be held to account and under constant scrutiny and oversight at the Ministerial level.
  

Restructure of the Frankenstein needs to start at the top and then work it’s way all the way down to the landscapers and the cleaners. Top to bottom reform, restructure, reset.