Subodiosus incommodus.
My Latin- through disuse – had gotten a little rusty; no matter, the rough translation is (more or less) “annoying interruptions”. Reading through the Hansard, posted above – I could not help beginning to count the O’Sofullame ‘interruptions’, they became so frequent, as to be annoying. Then tedium set in, so I quit reading and used a little computer magic to do a word count, by speaker. I’ll not bore you with the details, but, if you take out the ‘opening remarks’ made by those presenting a submission – guess who (for a Choc frog) leads the word count; and; for a bonus Choc frog, who does the most interrupting? This intrigued me, so I went after the points of ‘interruption’ in terms of crucial junctures, where critical supporting points are being made – have you guessed it - again? It was P7 who first brought these ‘oddities’ to my attention, we dismissed them as ingrained ‘style’ (and bad manners) at first; but, after some very tedious research back through the last couple of ‘Estimates’ Hansard; I am beginning to wonder if there is not an alternative motivation in play.
Not that it matters of course and there is precious little to be done even if it were proven to be the case; but it makes you wonder. There is a lighter side of course – the Patrick ‘infomercial’ – cracked me up. “But, but - I’ve put out a press release” well, ducking well, well – Wow! That will really have an impact. I can see ATSB and CASA quaking (quacking) in their boots now, heading for absolution and fervently praying for redemption, penitently returning the money to general revenue.
"And if it makes you feel any better, whilst this hearing has been on, my media adviser has done a press release for which the headline is 'Urgent action required on CASA over-regulation'. So even whilst I've been sitting here I've been pushing that cause, and I'm told I've got a media interview immediately after the suspension. So we are very alive to it."
On the bright side – there will be ‘recommendations’ made by the committee:-
“In the formal sense, a the end of the inquiry there will be a report made with a number of recommendations to government. Likely from this committee you will be unanimous recommendations from all quarters of politics that will go to government for government to consider.”
Amazing – CASA make a ‘recommendation’ and the ‘government’ claims ownership. The Senate makes ‘recommendations’ and the government treats them as ‘opinion’’. You really have to wonder:-
Let's not flinch: they're not CASA's regulations; they're the government's regulations that are often recommended by CASA.
Aye, I can just see it all now – air service utopia for the good folk of FNQ brought about by a Senate committee’s recommendation. I sincerely hope those folk are not holding their collective breath. Aviation has been waiting 30 years for ‘recommendations’ to become a little more than an opinion. But no matter – we do have the Patrick Press Release; that’ll rock ‘em: probably to sleep, if it don’t keep ‘em awake laughing.
Don’t forget to SMS Dick or AOPA – to wish ‘em well in the wilds of Wagga Wagga. Real representation for no more cost than a text message; money well spent.
Toot - toot.
My Latin- through disuse – had gotten a little rusty; no matter, the rough translation is (more or less) “annoying interruptions”. Reading through the Hansard, posted above – I could not help beginning to count the O’Sofullame ‘interruptions’, they became so frequent, as to be annoying. Then tedium set in, so I quit reading and used a little computer magic to do a word count, by speaker. I’ll not bore you with the details, but, if you take out the ‘opening remarks’ made by those presenting a submission – guess who (for a Choc frog) leads the word count; and; for a bonus Choc frog, who does the most interrupting? This intrigued me, so I went after the points of ‘interruption’ in terms of crucial junctures, where critical supporting points are being made – have you guessed it - again? It was P7 who first brought these ‘oddities’ to my attention, we dismissed them as ingrained ‘style’ (and bad manners) at first; but, after some very tedious research back through the last couple of ‘Estimates’ Hansard; I am beginning to wonder if there is not an alternative motivation in play.
Not that it matters of course and there is precious little to be done even if it were proven to be the case; but it makes you wonder. There is a lighter side of course – the Patrick ‘infomercial’ – cracked me up. “But, but - I’ve put out a press release” well, ducking well, well – Wow! That will really have an impact. I can see ATSB and CASA quaking (quacking) in their boots now, heading for absolution and fervently praying for redemption, penitently returning the money to general revenue.
"And if it makes you feel any better, whilst this hearing has been on, my media adviser has done a press release for which the headline is 'Urgent action required on CASA over-regulation'. So even whilst I've been sitting here I've been pushing that cause, and I'm told I've got a media interview immediately after the suspension. So we are very alive to it."
On the bright side – there will be ‘recommendations’ made by the committee:-
“In the formal sense, a the end of the inquiry there will be a report made with a number of recommendations to government. Likely from this committee you will be unanimous recommendations from all quarters of politics that will go to government for government to consider.”
Amazing – CASA make a ‘recommendation’ and the ‘government’ claims ownership. The Senate makes ‘recommendations’ and the government treats them as ‘opinion’’. You really have to wonder:-
Let's not flinch: they're not CASA's regulations; they're the government's regulations that are often recommended by CASA.
Aye, I can just see it all now – air service utopia for the good folk of FNQ brought about by a Senate committee’s recommendation. I sincerely hope those folk are not holding their collective breath. Aviation has been waiting 30 years for ‘recommendations’ to become a little more than an opinion. But no matter – we do have the Patrick Press Release; that’ll rock ‘em: probably to sleep, if it don’t keep ‘em awake laughing.
Don’t forget to SMS Dick or AOPA – to wish ‘em well in the wilds of Wagga Wagga. Real representation for no more cost than a text message; money well spent.
Toot - toot.