[Kharon]

I don’t know how much more of this crap I can stomach, dinkum.  It’s the same old game, Senators woof, bark and posture, the alphabet agencies spin, duck, dive and weave; stalemate.  More time, money, effort and patience wasted, same old result.  Maybe we should tell the new PM; at least he seems to understand the business of business.  Then again, perhaps not – Hoi. Malcom:-

Dear Prime Minister.

Your Civil Aviation Safety Authority is persisting with a reform of the aviation regulation which has already burdened the tax payer with in excess of AUD$250,000, 000 for an abject failure.  Then ‘new’ regulations place an intolerable cost burden on an industry which is failing, primarily due to the regulatory burden, shedding jobs, investors and has acquired no additional safety benefit from the impost of complex, confused regulations.  The behaviour of the regulator has been and remains, disgraceful; the Forsyth report clearly, unequivocally demands sweeping changes to the way aviation is managed i.e. the regulator.  There have been no progressive changes for the betterment; in fact retrograde action and repression is clearly apparent.

Your Air Transport Safety Bureau has become an international laughing stock; clearly incompetent, proven disingenuous and publicly exposed as being complicit with CASA of manipulating a safety report to suit a predetermined outcome.

Your Air Services, air traffic control management have been exposed in the Senate as worthy of an ANOA audit to determine to what extent the public purse has been misused.

All up, many hundred of millions of tax payer dollars have been wasted providing a flawed, bloated aviation management conglomerate which has achieved little of value and driven a thriving provider of employment to the brink of extinction.

Your Senate Standing Committee have dutifully tried to address these aberrations and keep running into the same brick walls; the Minister has ignored all calls for true reform.  If the Senators are powerless to halt the inevitable, the Minister will not see the inevitable, then Sir, we believe it is up to you to show the leadership required to halt and reverse this trend which will, sooner or later result in the collapse of an industry.

We are certain that an hour spent consulting with the Senators would convince you that there is clear and present danger surrounding all facets of aviation governance in Australia.

L&K the IOS

Nah, save the stamp GD; we may need to trade it for enough fuel to get home.