[Sandy Reith]

Sandy, you should tell the Committe that they should demand comprehensively detailed lists of both.

"LISTS" would be the "ONLY" way Sandy.

Producing "lists", from the databases, is a "SIMPLE" task, for the SQL heads in IT, one that the CASA could not legally "fudge".

Perhaps the Committee should ask for the list of the operators, broken down by AOC type, ........

I have asked for numbers of flying schools a few times over the last 30 odd years.
There’s never been an answer. Patently obvious is that there are only a very small number of GA schools left, might be only 10% or 20% compared to the 1970s and 1980s.

A remarkable turn around in the Smart Country, the young country of freedom and opportunity.

An ever increasing number of independent Commonwealth statutory corporate bodies hived off from various Departments is the very much part of the problem. These bodies do shield the Minister from responsibility but lack real direction and please themselves. Make work salary factories, not tied to the normal structures and strictures of the conventional Departmental employees, sold to a gullible polity as the much loved ‘independent umpire,’ a shallow excuse for duck shoving as ever was.

From an APS publication there are now 403,000 Can’tberrans not counting those that live in Queanbeyan, and Commonwealth employees 157,000. Number of media advisors to Ministers around three times anyone else in the developed world. What used to be Question Time is now Dorothy Dixers (pre planned questions) from the Government benches or gotcha statements from the Opposition. Plainly, overtly and shamelessly party political government advertisements on TV and elsewhere abound, paid by us dumb taxpayers.

No wonder “Director of Air Safety” (fatuous title, Shane up there on cloud 9 with baton directing air traffic) hasn’t got a clue to where GA is headed or where it was once because it’s better for Can’tberra and all in government not to know the awful truth.

Why spoil the party?