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Senator McKenzie written QON to Harfwit?? - 

Courtesy the RRAT pages, via the APH website: https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Bus...mates/rrat

QON 247: 

Question Airservices Australia advised1 on 31 August 2022 that they ""will adopt all recommendations in the recently released Brisbane New Parallel Runway Flight Paths Post Implementation Review (PIR) Independent Review Final Report by Trax International (Trax)."" What budget and resources are required and have been allocated to each of the four proposed work packages and over what time frame? How will Airservices resource the additional work required to adopt and implement all the recommendations?

QON 248:

Question Airservices held PIR Community Workshops in various Brisbane locations between 10th and 15th September. Some attendees reported that they only found out about these workshops due to communications received from local community groups or word of mouth. What official marketing, promotion and communication mechanisms were used to notify local communities about these workshops? How did Airservices ensure communities currently not affected by flight path noise but potentially affected in the future due to noise sharing proposals had been adequately informed so they could attend? What budget and resources have been allocated and spent on advertising and promoting these community workshops? Please also provide evidence of all ad copies placed in print, radio, TV or digital media channels. - If Airservices only advertised these workshops on their registration-only "Engage" website, please provide a detailed justification why Airservices sees fit to not make any resources available to advertise these community workshops to affected communities.

QON 249:

Question In Senate Estimates 22 March 2021, Airservices referred to flight path design as their "bread and butter." Why did Airservices fail to implement ANY of the TRAX recommendations for noise mitigation and abatements when the new airspace was launched on 12 July 2020? Why did Airservices have to spend $590,450 (GST exclusive)2 on these external consultants just to be told of recommendations that should be your "bread and butter" - as you say - in the first place? How does Airservices justify this expenditure as value for taxpayers?

QON 250:

Question How many complaints and inquiries relating to aircraft noise at Brisbane Airport has the Noise Complaints and Information Services (NCIS) team received between 12 July 2020 and now? Please provide a monthly breakdown of the number of complaints received online, by phone, and by post, and list the suburbs in which the complainants live.
a. 1 https://engage.airservicesaustralia.com/...se-to-trax- international-final-report
b. 2 Answer to QoN 105, Additional Estimates 2021 / 2022

QON 251:

Question In response to the answer received to QoN #109 (Additional Estimates 2021 / 2022), Airservices states that, "there have been no noise improvement suggestions submitted to the NCIS for Brisbane Airport to date." - This is factually incorrect. Community complaint submissions to the NCIS have included recommendations for noise improvements including calling for an airspace redesign, a curfew, a Brisbane Long-Term Operating Plan, and increasing the time period that SODPROPS are in use.
5.1 Why has the NCIS team not followed its own procedures,3 which state that, "if we identify any noise improvement opportunities in the course of our investigation we will seek to influence and persuade the relevant parties to implement this solution"?
5.2 Section 4.3 of the NCIS procedures states that, "Noise improvement investigations will be documented in an Investigation Report." - How many noise improvement investigations has the NCIS team conducted anywhere in Australia for any airport annually between 2018 and now. Please provide a table outlining the Investigation Report identification number, airspace, nature of the improvement investigation, the outcome of the investigation, and the impact on noise abatement / amelioration / minimisation to date.

QON 252:

Question In response to the answer received to QoN #119 (Additional Estimates 2021 / 2022), CASA tabled ACPs submitted by Airservices and reviewed by CASA OAR since 2019. Please provide a detailed explanation in lay terms of why "an incorrect holding pattern direction for inbound aircraft to Brisbane" had to be fixed in ACP 047-19, and what "oversight associated with the new parallel runway project" had to be corrected with ACP 065-20? What were the safety implications and risk assessments of these flaws and oversights for Brisbane residents and passengers prior to the identification of these issues?
a. 3 Airservices FOI disclosure log, file number FOI-21-2

 
Hmm...good to see that the Harfwit team is consistent, with the rest of the statutory Can'tberra aviation safety bureaucrats, in providing expensive non-consultation to potential affected citizens and industry...     

MTF...P2