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Here is the 'inside' word from the Guvmint that you won't get told over the 6 o'clock news. 

After the 2007 Garuda crash Australia WAS going to follow suit and ban them from flying into Aus. However, our dear Indon friends told the Guvmint that if they banned Garuda then they (Indonesia) would ban Aus carriers using Indonesian airspace. The EU and the FAA had already banned them and the financial impost was starting to bite hard, so they didn't want Australia adding to their financial pain. But a bit further into this, if you cast your minds back you will remember that the Rat was pretty much the main Aus operator that would be drastically affected. 

It would have impacted, from memory, around 65% of their international flights and add around an extra 3-4 hours flight time. This, in turn would have meant that much of its fleet type would have become pretty much useless overnight. (The facts and figures are rough guesstimates from memory, but based on internal Government papers I was given). 

Now of course the Guvmint couldn't allow the Rat to be wounded, plus the political fallout and facial eggs may have cost those in political power their jobs, hence the Indonesian Transportation Safety Assistance Program was born. (It's probably on Google, somewhere,  but I couldn't be bothered breaking it down here). But the basis was to create a smoke screen, it was hatched so as to allow the Indons to keep flying to Aus while Aus provided funding an training for Indon carriers and the DGCA. 

End result? 'Improved safety' is achieved, Australia still gets to use the Indon's airspace, the Rat isn't disadvantaged, and the Pollies dodge some nasty political fallout! What a swell arrangement!

It was high level turd polishing of the highest order, not to mention that Australia yet again got a BOHICA from one of its neighbours, one who it has given, literally, billions to over the years!!
Now I wonder who the chief turd polisher was at that particular time? Well I will give you a hint - short, stocky, no neck, but has a giant head! 

Aagh friends, it's all a game of tautology.

P.S Don't ever ask the Screamer what he thinks about providing Australian CAsA resources to other countries for their 'assistance'! Oh my, it ain't pretty!

Safer skies for all? Not really.
Tick tock? Definitely
MTF? Absolutely.............

That is both fascinating & extremely disturbing, but at the same time why am I not surprised...  

So let's get this straight good ol' pumpkin head Murky Mandarin is not only lurking behind the scenes with the Pink Batts fiasco; the Secondary Airports sell off that includes toxic soil emptying into the Georges River anytime it floods; overseeing several of his higher profile agencies (ASA) being less than transparent in Senate Estimates & consequently having to front up again to please explain their rather lacklustre performance again...

...& again

..& by the look of the QON index for the additional Estimates there is every chance they will cop a pizzling once again..

While on ASA there is also the small issue that the Airport Fire Authorities - to which ASA oversee - may have inadvertently been putting toxic PCB's into the water table of over 450 airport sites around Australia, if true this could add up to a bill in the umpteen billions in potential compensation?? 

Edit - Not to mention crushing the odd innocent Toyota while racing in their carefully camouflaged, environmentally friendly, toxic green behemoths to further contaminate even more land.  Two headed ducks for all.   Quack, bark, quack, bark.

Then there is some of the smaller issues to which M&M seemingly had some (or a lot) of bureaucratic persuasion; like the government endorsement of the angry man McComic for the ICAO SecGen possie - McComic in Montreal ;or the constant delay, obfuscation and basic thumbing of his nose of the parliamentary process in Estimates (mentioned here & not so long ago here) and by flipping the bird to the Senators with his obvious influence on the miniscule for keeping Dolan on as Chief Commissioner of the ATSB. This was despite Dolan's very public mauling by the Senators in the PelAir cover-up Inquiry...FFS..

The list domestically probably goes on & on..but wait there's more i.e. Gobbles post.
Is there no limit to the embuggerance & shady deals that this Mandarin is/could be somehow involved in?? 

Sure makes you wonder about the whole MH370 deal with the Malaysians when Ol'Pumpkin Head has been lurking in the shadows???

MTF?- Definitely P2..   

Ps See the following vid where M&M is squaring off the EU blacklist issue, notice that he also mentions in passing Garuda before the Heff starts softening up Staib & Co: