02-10-2021, 02:30 AM
Invective aside anyone with a reasonable knowledge of Glen Buckley’s case will share a sense of frustration and sense of extreme injustice.
For many years General Aviation (GA) personnel have directed much attention to CASA for the many ills of GA as consequence of the disastrous trajectory by the ever more dictatorial CASA. The industry wasting application of a suite of rules designed to perpetuate the CASA salary factory at the expense of GA and the Nation as a whole is in plain sight and nowhere has this out of control excess been more visible than by the bastardisation of APTA and Glen Buckley.
What is evident is that effort to correct this situation should be directed to Parliament because that is where the responsibility lies. Appeals to the Board and CEO of CASA should be made pro forma but only political action will change anything for the better. This is surely what is learned after thirty three years of a failed method of governance, that of an independent and unaccountable Commonwealth corporate body that was set up naively expecting that altruistic motivation would prevail and a better result could be expected when responsibility for all things aviation was removed from the direct democratic process via Ministerial oversight.
The hard yards are how to influence Members of Parliament. Many a time I’ve heard that emails have been sent to lower House MPs, but less often to Senators, and heard that the response was inadequate and therefore not much use to follow up. We must change and devise a continuous program individually, and collectively through our various industry associations, to engage directly and constantly.
Often I’ve heard that GA is too divided to make a strong collective case, this is a poor excuse for inaction. It is precisely the competitive nature of all things political, human nature, that we elect those that govern in our name to sort out competing interests and produce the most acceptable outcome for the Nation. On the other hand there is certainly a far more common burning desire in GA for reform. And a common realisation that we are in the same boat that is sinking. There’s never been such strong collective understanding that Parliament is the key and that means persistent, persuasive, regular and personal engagement with MPs and their staff. This is not the stuff of shouting invective, this is the hard yards.
For many years General Aviation (GA) personnel have directed much attention to CASA for the many ills of GA as consequence of the disastrous trajectory by the ever more dictatorial CASA. The industry wasting application of a suite of rules designed to perpetuate the CASA salary factory at the expense of GA and the Nation as a whole is in plain sight and nowhere has this out of control excess been more visible than by the bastardisation of APTA and Glen Buckley.
What is evident is that effort to correct this situation should be directed to Parliament because that is where the responsibility lies. Appeals to the Board and CEO of CASA should be made pro forma but only political action will change anything for the better. This is surely what is learned after thirty three years of a failed method of governance, that of an independent and unaccountable Commonwealth corporate body that was set up naively expecting that altruistic motivation would prevail and a better result could be expected when responsibility for all things aviation was removed from the direct democratic process via Ministerial oversight.
The hard yards are how to influence Members of Parliament. Many a time I’ve heard that emails have been sent to lower House MPs, but less often to Senators, and heard that the response was inadequate and therefore not much use to follow up. We must change and devise a continuous program individually, and collectively through our various industry associations, to engage directly and constantly.
Often I’ve heard that GA is too divided to make a strong collective case, this is a poor excuse for inaction. It is precisely the competitive nature of all things political, human nature, that we elect those that govern in our name to sort out competing interests and produce the most acceptable outcome for the Nation. On the other hand there is certainly a far more common burning desire in GA for reform. And a common realisation that we are in the same boat that is sinking. There’s never been such strong collective understanding that Parliament is the key and that means persistent, persuasive, regular and personal engagement with MPs and their staff. This is not the stuff of shouting invective, this is the hard yards.