[Kharon]

Poor old Bankstown; thought it would at least have the tourism generated by it’s unique ‘glo-in-the-dark’ two headed ducks and cess pit theme parks; not to be.  Looks like many other airports are to have them as well and if Newcastle now have the fish and beaches to match, Bankstown will be forgotten, frogs and all.

What a mess Mr. Truss; the result of years of gouging and neglect, by all parties – now your responsibility.  Appointing David Fawcett to aviation may be your only way of dodging the large silver bullet of blame; think on, it’s a winner.  DF does the work and aviation crawls out of the cess and slurry it’s dying in, you get the credit for having the brains to bring in a hired gun, to sort it all out for you.  Brilliant, and there is no way it can backfire,; it’s such a ducking mess now that no one from my aging Grandmamma, to the office cat could fail to improve the disastrous situation that exists.

Bring in Fawcett, plead with Forsyth to help him for a twelve month, step back and accept the kudos. Piece of cake.

Monitoring is as you well know – a cop out.  Another hand crafted excuse for doing SFA.  The excuse of choice used by three of the most useless, incompetent, greedy, deceitful aviation agencies on the face of this long suffering planet.

Larry Pickering -  “Defence is a bureaucratic monolith responsible only to itself and poor little Abbott’s mate, Kevin Andrews, was one of many who were in the process of discovering their own Ministerial impotence when Turnbull presented the chortling chiefs with the cuddly Marise."

Reword as appropriate then consider the ‘military’ origins and mind set of CASA – does history keep repeating?  You bet it does – in Spades, redoubled..

“Safe reality checks for all”.

Toot toot.