The old Soft shoe shuffle.
Hitch – “[It] has completely managed to side-step any controversy, surprising given that former Minister Warren Truss included the requirement to review in his last Statement of Expectations presented to CASA. I would have thought that there was some trigger that prompted Truss to include that, so have to wonder if the trigger has been addressed in this report.”
I reckon ‘Hitch’ is being just a little tongue in cheek saying he’s ‘surprised’. How many ministerial’ requirements now have been given ‘the treatment’? If you take that a step further and include any and all form of ‘requirement’, directive, edict or recommendation, made in the just the last decade, there emerges a clear, distinctive, entirely predictable pattern. A little smoke, the mirrors polished and some fairly clever window dressing fool a minister into believing that the ‘Requirement’ has been met. There is no retrospective check to make sure that this is so; the cover story believed and the ‘requirement’ safely filed away in the basement – done and dusted. All, except for the parts which please CASA. For example:-
5. Consider amending regulations to extend CASA's powers to gather information.
Not a single item on the KPMG shopping list will ever make through to a meaningful reality, except item 5. This will be exploited to the maximum extent, through the extremes of ‘legal’ interpretation and morph into something quite sinister and quietly exploited to become a thing so far removed from the spirit and intent of the recommendation as to be unrecognisable. Not that anyone will check - . However, if you do the research and carefully follow the ‘development’ of previous juicy morsels which have excited the regulator, you will find that anything, any small thing which adds to the incredible ‘power base’, carefully grown and nurtured over the years, will be fully embraced and implemented, with maximum stealth, at an almost indecent speed.
This careful, highly selective picking of fruits ensures that for CASA, no matter what, life is always just a bowl of cherries.
Toot toot,
Hitch – “[It] has completely managed to side-step any controversy, surprising given that former Minister Warren Truss included the requirement to review in his last Statement of Expectations presented to CASA. I would have thought that there was some trigger that prompted Truss to include that, so have to wonder if the trigger has been addressed in this report.”
I reckon ‘Hitch’ is being just a little tongue in cheek saying he’s ‘surprised’. How many ministerial’ requirements now have been given ‘the treatment’? If you take that a step further and include any and all form of ‘requirement’, directive, edict or recommendation, made in the just the last decade, there emerges a clear, distinctive, entirely predictable pattern. A little smoke, the mirrors polished and some fairly clever window dressing fool a minister into believing that the ‘Requirement’ has been met. There is no retrospective check to make sure that this is so; the cover story believed and the ‘requirement’ safely filed away in the basement – done and dusted. All, except for the parts which please CASA. For example:-
5. Consider amending regulations to extend CASA's powers to gather information.
Not a single item on the KPMG shopping list will ever make through to a meaningful reality, except item 5. This will be exploited to the maximum extent, through the extremes of ‘legal’ interpretation and morph into something quite sinister and quietly exploited to become a thing so far removed from the spirit and intent of the recommendation as to be unrecognisable. Not that anyone will check - . However, if you do the research and carefully follow the ‘development’ of previous juicy morsels which have excited the regulator, you will find that anything, any small thing which adds to the incredible ‘power base’, carefully grown and nurtured over the years, will be fully embraced and implemented, with maximum stealth, at an almost indecent speed.
This careful, highly selective picking of fruits ensures that for CASA, no matter what, life is always just a bowl of cherries.
Toot toot,