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GlenB embuggerance update: 3/11/21

Via the AP email chains:

3rd November 2021
 
TO:
Mr. Mark Binskin AC- Chair of the CASA Board
Ms. Pip spence PSM- CASA CEO
CC:
The Office of the Deputy PM.
 
Dear Ms Spence, and Mr Binskin,

Congratulations on your respective appointments. The General Aviation (GA) is highly dependent on you, in your respective roles, as am I.

I would like to qualify the following correspondence by acknowledging that you are both relatively new to the positions and have had absolutely no involvement in this matter to date, and therefore not responsible for it.

Similarly, the Honourable Mr Barnaby Joyce has only recently taken over from Mr Michael McCormack, as the Minister responsible for CASA.

Mr McCormack has been fully briefed on this matter by the previous CASA Chair of the Board, Mr Anthony Matthews, in accordance with the obligations placed on him by the Ministers Statement of Expectations of the Board of CASA.

Although Mr McCormack never responded to my correspondence his Office has recently acknowledged receipt, of extensive correspondence from me, including allegations of misfeasance against one of the CASA Executive Managers, and therefore would be considered the Subject Matter Expert (SME) within the National Party.

You will be aware of my matter; my name is Glen Buckley the previous owner of Melbourne Flight Training (MFT) and the Australian Pilot Training Alliance (APTA). Two flight training businesses shut down by CASA in October 2018. This was done with absolutely no supporting Safety Case despite my repeated requests for one.

I am fully satisfied that a CASA employees’ misconduct is the reason for the loss of my businesses, and others, and I have previously made allegations of misfeasance in Public Office against him before Parliament.

Other people have contacted me and offered to come forward and present their evidence, including CASA employees, against that same individual.

The impacts have been significant. Several businesses were closed, people lost their jobs, suppliers were left unpaid, customers impacted, and domestic and international students were impacted.

That is the reason that I am pushing to have my matter fully investigated in a well-intentioned manner. Far too many people have been impacted by this, and that causes an enormous burden on me.

The purpose of this correspondence.

I wish to provide you with a copy of a recording that I have not previously published.

If you listen to that recording of a CASA employee, it will bring this entire matter to a prompt resolution.

It will clearly demonstrate that CASA has mislead the Commonwealth Ombudsman in his investigation of this matter. Please be assured that there will be absolutely no doubt once you have listened to it.

The actions and decisions of this individual have left me and my wife bankrupt. We are destitute, and now literally live week to week. This matter at one stage had me depressed and suicidal and my three children had to experience that.

I am currently off work for 6 weeks after being released from hospital with a heart condition that I attribute to the conduct of this employee. Having just broken-down crying in a Bunnings store while simply trying to choose a light globe, I have come home decided to publish the recording.

Because of this individual misconduct I do not have the funds to obtain legal advice on this matter, so will default to your guidance.

Can each of you please advise the method that I can provide you with a copy of that recording in a confidential and appropriate manner.

Thank you for your consideration, and I hope you choose to take advantage of the opportunity presented.

Glen Buckley

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