Beef and Bull-dust.
Do we have a beef? – Damn right we do.
Do we have bull-dust?– By the bloody cartload.
Why?
‘Heff – “However, given the cost of conducting these inquiries to the taxpayer, where recommendations go nowhere it seems fair to ask, what is the point?”
It is ‘difficult’ we are told (by expert advice) to arrive at even the basic ‘cost’ of a day’s Estimates hearing, let alone ‘an inquiry’. So, readers will forgive a little poetic license in the forthcoming analysis of ‘exactly’ what is the cost, to the public purse, of every Hansard page provided. You see, Bull-dust costs significantly more than the ‘facts’. It’s true. The cost of ‘obfuscation’, to questions on notice and the time to ‘study’ the response; and the almost non event of ‘examining’ the response, followed by no response to the QoN is worthy of mention. The ‘answers’ are, indeed, eventually, provided and immediately accepted as Gospel by the committee asking. Goal 1 for the government opposition (if they had a functioning brain),
Heff - “[They] were perhaps the best tool available for taking an objective, common-sense approach to looking at a particular industry’s problems and what solutions were possible,” etc.
“They were” is a very significant couple of words – “were” being the give away. The O’Sofullame committee don’t seem to have any function except the blatant desire to shut it all down, deny the factual, empirical evidence, roll up the carpet; and, determinedly, ignore the plain facts. And - we pay good, hard earned for this bollocks, spoon fed to the public so they do not ever realize that CASA costs about three times it’s (intrinsic and practical) worth. That the present Senate committee are not only clueless, but gullible – and not in any sort of a hurry is but one chunk of ‘the problem’.
Heff - “There were also many examples”, he said, “of where the warning had been sounded via a senate inquiry and ignored – to great cost.”
For thirty years now and counting ASA, ATSB and CASA, through ‘ministers’ abrogating their responsibility have been taking the Mickey Bliss and, making our ‘law makers’ look ridiculous. Had Fawcett weighed in, perhaps – things may have been different. Rumour has it that far from becoming involved – he is said to have stated openly, that ‘aviation’ was not in his future; and, that he not only declined to be the only parliamentary ‘expert’ on the no vote winning matters aeronautical topic but calmly strolled away. –Aviation made him what he is – in the non spiritual world. Yet he will not risk his standing to defend this industry – for even a half year – to straighten it all out. He’s yet another who seems prepared to leave aviation to bureaucratic lunacy and let it rot rather than take a half year position to earn a ‘ministerial’ tag. If that’s true, is this what we can expect from today’s officers and leaders of men? –I wonder what may we expect if the proverbial ever hits the windmill? Have words like duty, honour and responsibility lost all meaning?
Heff - “Who is in government should be of no consequence and if the recommendations are knocked back, it was up to senators to “jam it up them,” according to Mr Heffernan. “Make a fuss and follow up because history has shown us the dire consequences of not listening to the outcomes of these inquiries.” Hear, Hear!.........
You may, if it’s you’re bent, go back thirty years to find a contradictory analysis – and good luck with that. There is but one answer – someone, somewhere, some time has to call a halt – and mean it – on the ministers who take the money for the responsibility but allow an out of control juggernaut to persist in raping and pillaging the general populace in the name of safety. One day, it will come back, like the Hamlet ghost’ to haunt and harry them.
Well done 'the Land', (always a good read) well said Heff – not that it will make one iota of difference; nobody cares - but thank you anyway.
Selah.
Do we have a beef? – Damn right we do.
Do we have bull-dust?– By the bloody cartload.
Why?
‘Heff – “However, given the cost of conducting these inquiries to the taxpayer, where recommendations go nowhere it seems fair to ask, what is the point?”
It is ‘difficult’ we are told (by expert advice) to arrive at even the basic ‘cost’ of a day’s Estimates hearing, let alone ‘an inquiry’. So, readers will forgive a little poetic license in the forthcoming analysis of ‘exactly’ what is the cost, to the public purse, of every Hansard page provided. You see, Bull-dust costs significantly more than the ‘facts’. It’s true. The cost of ‘obfuscation’, to questions on notice and the time to ‘study’ the response; and the almost non event of ‘examining’ the response, followed by no response to the QoN is worthy of mention. The ‘answers’ are, indeed, eventually, provided and immediately accepted as Gospel by the committee asking. Goal 1 for the government opposition (if they had a functioning brain),
Heff - “[They] were perhaps the best tool available for taking an objective, common-sense approach to looking at a particular industry’s problems and what solutions were possible,” etc.
“They were” is a very significant couple of words – “were” being the give away. The O’Sofullame committee don’t seem to have any function except the blatant desire to shut it all down, deny the factual, empirical evidence, roll up the carpet; and, determinedly, ignore the plain facts. And - we pay good, hard earned for this bollocks, spoon fed to the public so they do not ever realize that CASA costs about three times it’s (intrinsic and practical) worth. That the present Senate committee are not only clueless, but gullible – and not in any sort of a hurry is but one chunk of ‘the problem’.
Heff - “There were also many examples”, he said, “of where the warning had been sounded via a senate inquiry and ignored – to great cost.”
For thirty years now and counting ASA, ATSB and CASA, through ‘ministers’ abrogating their responsibility have been taking the Mickey Bliss and, making our ‘law makers’ look ridiculous. Had Fawcett weighed in, perhaps – things may have been different. Rumour has it that far from becoming involved – he is said to have stated openly, that ‘aviation’ was not in his future; and, that he not only declined to be the only parliamentary ‘expert’ on the no vote winning matters aeronautical topic but calmly strolled away. –Aviation made him what he is – in the non spiritual world. Yet he will not risk his standing to defend this industry – for even a half year – to straighten it all out. He’s yet another who seems prepared to leave aviation to bureaucratic lunacy and let it rot rather than take a half year position to earn a ‘ministerial’ tag. If that’s true, is this what we can expect from today’s officers and leaders of men? –I wonder what may we expect if the proverbial ever hits the windmill? Have words like duty, honour and responsibility lost all meaning?
Heff - “Who is in government should be of no consequence and if the recommendations are knocked back, it was up to senators to “jam it up them,” according to Mr Heffernan. “Make a fuss and follow up because history has shown us the dire consequences of not listening to the outcomes of these inquiries.” Hear, Hear!.........
You may, if it’s you’re bent, go back thirty years to find a contradictory analysis – and good luck with that. There is but one answer – someone, somewhere, some time has to call a halt – and mean it – on the ministers who take the money for the responsibility but allow an out of control juggernaut to persist in raping and pillaging the general populace in the name of safety. One day, it will come back, like the Hamlet ghost’ to haunt and harry them.
Well done 'the Land', (always a good read) well said Heff – not that it will make one iota of difference; nobody cares - but thank you anyway.
Selah.