Too bad for NSW that there wasn’t someone with General Aviation (GA) experience that could have forewarned their fire service people what was bound to happen. Of course CASA won’t make a decision because they don’t have too, therefore the easy way out is to do nothing. This is the beauty of being an independent Commonwealth corporate. The appalling history of waste and extraordinary mismanagement that’s occurred during the thirty two years since CASA was cast out of direct Ministerial control should by now be glaringly obvious even to lay people, certainly to politicians.
The unique model of governance that we’ve been saddled with all these years has proven to be disastrous for GA and cost the Nation dearly in terms of the huge loss of jobs, businesses and services.
Until there’s real action by Parliament there’s little hope of worthwhile reform. With more than a modicum of luck we may just find a new CEO with a brain and a conscience who could make a difference in the short term, but without a different model with Ministerial and Parliamentary control then the long term prospects for GA are very poor.
The unique model of governance that we’ve been saddled with all these years has proven to be disastrous for GA and cost the Nation dearly in terms of the huge loss of jobs, businesses and services.
Until there’s real action by Parliament there’s little hope of worthwhile reform. With more than a modicum of luck we may just find a new CEO with a brain and a conscience who could make a difference in the short term, but without a different model with Ministerial and Parliamentary control then the long term prospects for GA are very poor.