by Sarcs | Apr 5, 2024 | Accidents and Inquiry, ASA, ATSB, Aunty Pru - First solo, Aviation Safety, CASA, Minister for Transport, Senate Estimates - Unplugged
First this week’s SBG: Mushrooms v Bubble Heads (Round 27). With a vengeance; but, before the chickens came the eggs and them as laid them. The notion of an essential ‘public service’ becoming a profit centre, detached from government (ministerial)...
by Sarcs | Dec 23, 2023 | Accidents and Inquiry, ASA, ATSB, Aviation Safety, CASA, Minister for Transport, Senate Estimates - Unplugged
First last week’s #SBG: 17/12/23 Hush-a-bye-baby.. The original verse appeared in ‘Mother Goose’s melody’ circa 1769; or, so the story goes. But, I’ve always liked the reality fix embedded; because, no matter how dreamy, or soothing the...
by Sarcs | Nov 26, 2023 | Accidents and Inquiry, ATSB, Aviation Safety, CASA, Minister for Transport, Senate Estimates - Unplugged
First last week’s #SBG: Ineptitude, Insouciance and perhaps… I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, were it not for making living, which is rather a nouciance. “Begin at the beginning”, the King said (very gravely). All well and good for...
by Sarcs | Oct 7, 2023 | Accidents and Inquiry, ASA, ATSB, Aviation Safety, CASA, Minister for Transport, Senate Estimates - Unplugged
First the #SBG: 01/10/23 October; long weekend to celebrate Labour day in NSW; a time to remember what a great country we live in, or, it used to be. Not so much these days though, seems both a fair and a reasonable comment. I find it quite problematic to balance the...
by Sarcs | Sep 29, 2023 | Accidents and Inquiry, ASA, ATSB, Aviation Safety, CASA, Minister for Transport
First this week’s #SBG: And, at the very bottom of the barrel :- “They were changeful in speech, for they had great love of words, and sought ever to find names more fit for all things that they knew or imagined.” For a classic example listen – HERE -. The...