Interesting little snippet on sKy news tonight. Chris Smith was discussing with a medical expert why Australia is so screwed up and way behind the rest of the world with the rapid Covid tests.
Maybe P2 can dredge up a video copy of that interview.
What Interested me was the parallels that could be drawn between the obfuscation displayed by our Aviation regulator against those that administer Australia's response to the Covid Pandemic.
Self appointed "Experts" within CAsA burden expert Industry participants with draconian, inept impediments that lead to huge delays which translate into huge costs which inevitably leads to lack of participation and the death of a whole industry. What doesn't dawn on our political class is that CAsA are NOT the freaking experts!! in their own minds maybe but in the real world most of them would not even rate a mention. For gods sake what are the qualification's bloke who runs the place, Dr VooDo Hoodo, other than writing a paper on Black magic, other than being a very cunning sociopath, what does he actually know about the business of aviation, he's not even an expert in the LAW, just very clever in subverting it.
The Chris Smith interview to me just highlights how dysfunctional our whole public service sector has become, further behind the aircraft that the last passenger in a B747. Complete lack of forward thinking, complete disregard for expert advice, complete ignorance of the real issues. Seems it applies across the board, this country is screwed, forever behind our competitors shackled by the inertia of a bureaucracy incapable of keeping up.
Maybe P2 can dredge up a video copy of that interview.
What Interested me was the parallels that could be drawn between the obfuscation displayed by our Aviation regulator against those that administer Australia's response to the Covid Pandemic.
Self appointed "Experts" within CAsA burden expert Industry participants with draconian, inept impediments that lead to huge delays which translate into huge costs which inevitably leads to lack of participation and the death of a whole industry. What doesn't dawn on our political class is that CAsA are NOT the freaking experts!! in their own minds maybe but in the real world most of them would not even rate a mention. For gods sake what are the qualification's bloke who runs the place, Dr VooDo Hoodo, other than writing a paper on Black magic, other than being a very cunning sociopath, what does he actually know about the business of aviation, he's not even an expert in the LAW, just very clever in subverting it.
The Chris Smith interview to me just highlights how dysfunctional our whole public service sector has become, further behind the aircraft that the last passenger in a B747. Complete lack of forward thinking, complete disregard for expert advice, complete ignorance of the real issues. Seems it applies across the board, this country is screwed, forever behind our competitors shackled by the inertia of a bureaucracy incapable of keeping up.