The three card trick.
Messer’s Cowie and Mannix, writing in the Age are close, but no Choc Frog – yet. I wonder, will any of the plugged in journalists actually ‘do’ a story on this; a real one, of the old fashioned type. For there is one; complex, I’ll grant you. But are the repercussions for telling the tale worth going the extra distance for? I don’t believe there is a media outlet with the balls to tackle ‘the story’, certainly non of their expensive legal counsel would agree to it being done in any meaningful way. Not that ‘the story’ would be illegal or even ‘prosecutable’ in any way; it is simply that ‘the story’ will be discouraged by concerns for mortgage, school fees and bread on the table overshadowing the telling of ‘the tale’.
Now then; it may well turn out that the handling of aircraft and the accident can all be traced back to the hanger cat pissing on a wire. It may turn out that maintenance was ‘dodgy’ and the pilot incompetent; it may even turn out that the with Venus being in the seventh arc and the moon in Virgo that fate took a hand. What will not turn out is that there was any ‘liability’ or ‘responsibility’ on the part of any government agency. Yet the facts are there, the buildings are there and the ruthless exploitation of aerodrome land is there. Even the supporting data is there; freely available and easy to read. Consultation with any legal counsel for any ‘airport’ Master plan dispute, such as the Archerfield counsel, will reveal the venal truths. There is just nothing anyone can do about it; and, the gods know, the air operators have tried. All there, the case for operational safety, public safety and business protection; along with the abysmal results of righteous protest. The DoIT have no problem jacking up a million and half to mount a case; to aircraft operators, this is ‘big bucks’. But they managed to find the dough, mount a sensible safety case and put up a bloody good fight – alas…
The ‘Act’ of itself is often heard being acknowledged as unconstitutional, in the same sentence with ‘the brag’ - words to the effect that no one would be able to financially support a case to challenge it. From the ‘Act’ flow all manner of escape routes and abrogation loop holes. The development of airports is a classic, word perfect example of ‘pass the responsibility parcel’. Yet every single objection, from industry against proposed development has been based on safety. Take a look at the graphic Mr. Peabody has provided, the lines parallel to the runway cover the buildings. It is preventing this sort of cynical, protected building projects which industry has tried to espouse. There has been no resistance from the governmental agencies to this development, a cynical mind could construe the resistance to the safety case, now proven, as tacit encouragement to continue. The quest for an alternate scapegoat is now on; lets try and make sure the right ‘bunny’ is in the headlights.
Toot toot.
Messer’s Cowie and Mannix, writing in the Age are close, but no Choc Frog – yet. I wonder, will any of the plugged in journalists actually ‘do’ a story on this; a real one, of the old fashioned type. For there is one; complex, I’ll grant you. But are the repercussions for telling the tale worth going the extra distance for? I don’t believe there is a media outlet with the balls to tackle ‘the story’, certainly non of their expensive legal counsel would agree to it being done in any meaningful way. Not that ‘the story’ would be illegal or even ‘prosecutable’ in any way; it is simply that ‘the story’ will be discouraged by concerns for mortgage, school fees and bread on the table overshadowing the telling of ‘the tale’.
Now then; it may well turn out that the handling of aircraft and the accident can all be traced back to the hanger cat pissing on a wire. It may turn out that maintenance was ‘dodgy’ and the pilot incompetent; it may even turn out that the with Venus being in the seventh arc and the moon in Virgo that fate took a hand. What will not turn out is that there was any ‘liability’ or ‘responsibility’ on the part of any government agency. Yet the facts are there, the buildings are there and the ruthless exploitation of aerodrome land is there. Even the supporting data is there; freely available and easy to read. Consultation with any legal counsel for any ‘airport’ Master plan dispute, such as the Archerfield counsel, will reveal the venal truths. There is just nothing anyone can do about it; and, the gods know, the air operators have tried. All there, the case for operational safety, public safety and business protection; along with the abysmal results of righteous protest. The DoIT have no problem jacking up a million and half to mount a case; to aircraft operators, this is ‘big bucks’. But they managed to find the dough, mount a sensible safety case and put up a bloody good fight – alas…
The ‘Act’ of itself is often heard being acknowledged as unconstitutional, in the same sentence with ‘the brag’ - words to the effect that no one would be able to financially support a case to challenge it. From the ‘Act’ flow all manner of escape routes and abrogation loop holes. The development of airports is a classic, word perfect example of ‘pass the responsibility parcel’. Yet every single objection, from industry against proposed development has been based on safety. Take a look at the graphic Mr. Peabody has provided, the lines parallel to the runway cover the buildings. It is preventing this sort of cynical, protected building projects which industry has tried to espouse. There has been no resistance from the governmental agencies to this development, a cynical mind could construe the resistance to the safety case, now proven, as tacit encouragement to continue. The quest for an alternate scapegoat is now on; lets try and make sure the right ‘bunny’ is in the headlights.
Toot toot.