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Update: The Oz (Cleary) v Aunty (Sveen/Sturmer).

Reference: 

Coupled with the 4D letters to the TAAAF & AOPA - HERE -  the next part of the Cleary offering makes me suspicious that we are about to witness the pushback from M&M and his minions... :

...Pilots who fly with the major airlines say that safety is being compromised. But the regulatory cost on the industry is also being increased by alarmist concerns about the standard of air traffic control.

Airservices Australia, which is responsible for air safety at all of Australia’s commercial airports, is trying to cut costs through a program known as Accelerate.

Airservices chief executive Jason Harfield said the cuts to back-office staff were needed to reduce costs.

He said the Accelerate program, which will cut 700 jobs, was needed to “minimise the cost burden on Australian aviation while continuing to safely perform our critical air navigation and aviation rescue fire fighting roles”.

Airservices has seen an “unsustainable” increase in overall staff numbers over the past 10 years, rising from 2996 employees in 2006 to 4468 employees in 2016.

Jim Davis, who chairs Regional Aviation Association of Australia, said he told the ABC this week that he had no concerns about air traffic control safety. He was asked by a journalist if the cuts would affect regional airports.

“I said there is no impact on operational safety issues with the changes Airservices Australia are making. I said that a couple of times. We are happy at this stage because the changes are not in a critical areas,” he said.

The ABC reported this week that the Accelerate program had created a “crisis” in air traffic control and it could cause an air disaster.

I gather the quotes are from this spiteful piece: 

ABC’s ‘selective’ safety reports
12:00amPAUL CLEARY
The ABC may have breached its charter by not reporting industry comments about air safety contrary to its reports.

Now it could be that this is a typical Newscorp v ABC journalistic ding-dong but from past experience, when the Oz was neutered by the government and it's self-serving aviation safety agencies under former aviation editor and CASA-sexual Steve Creepy, I am very cynical and suspect...  Especially when you consider some of the Aunty Pru archived 'that man' Higgins contributions on the subject of ASA & OneSKY trough funds etc..etc
Examples:

#26 Pilots, victims’ families call for change as planes fly blind

#40 Aviation watchdog CASA shares safety role  

#27 Pilots forced to weather cloudy service  

Helpful hints for Cleary...   Besides referring to your work colleague Ean Higgin's archive of articles on the diabolical shenanigans at ASA, please refer to the PAIN Youtube archive: https://www.youtube.com/user/004wercras/...shelf_id=0 

Hint: Look for tags and/or titles with words like Airservices, performance, OneSKY, ANAO, KPMG, dodgy deals, audit or even Aunty Pru...

Examples:

The feud continues -

Via the ABC Media Manager:

Response to The Australian, 17 February 2017
Posted 17th February 2017
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The Australian’s journalist Paul Cleary has made a number of false claims in his report “ABC’s selective safety reports” (The Australian, 17 February 2017) concerning an ABC News investigation into safety issues at Airservices Australia.

Mr Cleary was told in no uncertain terms that his accusation that the ABC journalists who reported this story had omitted interviews with two major industry bodies was wrong. Furthermore Mr Cleary failed to properly record the ABC’s response to his false claims.

The statement given to Mr Cleary, which he failed to include in his story, said: ABC News attempted to get comment from the AIPA multiple times, more than a week before the story was published, but it did not provide any statement or anyone to be interviewed. No one from the RAAA was interviewed, so no comments were omitted. The reporters spoke to dozens of current and former Airservices Australia employees throughout the investigation into the organisation, over several months. Every person interviewed on-the-record was included in the report.

The crucial elements of the investigative report were the differing views inside Airservices Australia itself as to the safety implications. A further report, aired later the same day on NewsRadio and conducted by a different reporter, reported on the industry views on this issue.

The ABC has sought a correction by The Australian to repair this record.
 
ENDS
For more information
Nick Leys
Media Manager, Corporate Affairs
[i]leys.nick@abc.net.au[/i]

Air-traffic job cuts would not have been approved if they posed risk to public safety, aviation expert

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First posted 15/02/2017 14:02:12
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Job cuts have left the government body responsible for Australia's aviation safety in crisis, with one executive telling the ABC that it's "only a matter of time" before there's a catastrophic accident.
Senior officials at Air Services Australia have provided damning accounts claiming the organisation is now "a huge risk to public safety", following a cost-cutting program which saw 700 staff lose their jobs.
Airservices Australia is adamant the redundancies will not affect operational air traffic controllers and therefore have no impact on safety.
Neil Hansford is an Aviation expert and chairman of Strategic Aviation Solutions.
He says the cuts would never have been approved if they posed a risk to Australia's air-traffic control record.
He's speaking to NewsRadio's Scott Wales

MTF...P2


Ps Whose shout for the popcorn...