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Bureaucratic incest - a game the whole department can play

Don't worry P2. Just because Halfwit can get some CAPEX projects over the line doesn't make him 'special'. After all, he doesn't run a private enterprise in which accountability and responsibility comes into play. He runs a monopoly who can spend what they want when they want because the bucket never runs dry - the taxpayer keeps topping it up! My effing Grandkids could run a business like that FFS, piece of piss.

P.S Nice photo. No togas? The next photo in the series probably has them wearing spandex and playing nude leapfrog!

"Safe extracurricular sports for all"

Talking about the 'Public Works Committee', apparently they've been tasked to look into the defence side of the infrastructure required for the $410+ million OneSky project. 

Quote from Senate Estimates thread post - Well done (the other) Aunty

 

New civil-military air traffic system to improve airspace management

A system that will enhance how Australian airspace is managed, enabling a new level of operational and cost efficiency, will be investigated at a public hearing tomorrow.

The Public Works Committee is conducting a hearing into new and upgraded infrastructure, proposed to support the introduction of a new air traffic management system at several Defence bases across Australia.

The works are required to support a new civil-military air traffic management system which has been developed by the Department of Defence and Airservices Australia.

Defence’s submission states that the proposed works will deliver training, support and maintenance facilities associated with the new air traffic management system. Additionally, the works will upgrade air traffic control towers and airfield systems facilities that were constructed in the 1960s and are no longer fit for purpose.

The Department of Defence will provide evidence on the proposed works at the public hearing and the Hunter Water Corporation will provide evidence regarding management of contamination at RAAF Base Williamtown.

The project is expected to cost $409.9 million (excluding GST).

Full details on the project are available on the committee’s website: www.aph.gov.au/pwc

Public Hearing Venue: Committee Room 2R2, Parliament House, Canberra

Date: Friday, 27 November 2015

Time: 11.45 am – 1.15 pm

Members of the public are welcome to attend.

NB the Public Works Committee is neither involved in the tendering process nor the awarding of contracts. Enquiries on those matters should be addressed to the Department of Defence.

 
And here is the link & ToR for that PWC inquiry -

AIR5431 Phases 2 and 3 Air Traffic Management and Control System Facilities and Australian Defence Force Air Traffic Control Complex Infrastructure


On Wednesday, 16 September 2015 the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Finance, The Hon Michael McCormack MP, asked the Committee to inquire into and report on the AIR5431 Phases 2 and 3 Air Traffic Management and Control System Facilities and Australian Defence Force Air Traffic Control Complex Infrastructure Project.

The Committee invites interested persons and organisations to make submissions addressing the terms of reference by Thursday, 22 October 2015. Online submissions can be made on this page.

 There are 2 submissions (other than the Defence submission):

2 Hunter Water Corporation (PDF 1513 KB) 

2.1 Supplementary to submission 2 (PDF 1400 KB) 


3 NSW Environment Protection Authority (PDF 1883 KB)

Reading those submissions one wonders how long it will be before the MSM & public realises that the RAAF Williamtown environmental contamination crisis, could be the tip of a very large iceberg...

Interesting that the Finance Department Parliamentary Secretary requested the PWC inquiry less than a week after the last ASA performance inquiry hearing on the 9th of September..


MTF..P2