01-23-2022, 01:05 PM
It just keeps coming, truly they are the past masters at doing nothing while looking like, at last (breathe a huge sigh of relief?), can’t hardly believe it, the Minister will make serious reforms.
If this Minister was dinkum he would have told Goodmans that their ridiculous Moorabbin Airport Master plan was in the bin and taken plenty of other measures through CASA and its invisible, money wasting and utterly redundant Board to reinvigorate General Aviation.
At the same time he might have looked at the Glen Buckley unjust debacle and instructed CASA to come up with a fair compensation package.
If we’d had some previous demonstration that Ministerial responsibility has meaning then more action could be reasonably expected. But now it’s election time and Barnaby Joyce is doing nothing except showing himself around National Party territory looking for favourable publicity.
If proof was needed of the farcical nature of this supposed move to correct the irresponsible degradation of our irreplaceable secondary airports, National security assets, then read the proposal; to begin consultations.
Consultations. And not forgetting yet another exemplary example of the total lack of sincerity, stupidly, and a probably ignorant bureaucrat’s thought bubble, Minister Joyce says we will get yet another advisory body.
Words fail, didn’t they know (probably) or care that there’s already several other government aviation advisory bodies? There’s the GAAN, General Aviation Advisory Network and ASAP (truly! formed a couple of years ago, after 32 years of nothing but worse regulations), the Aviation Safety Advisory Panel and others. And Minister Joyce’s aviation advisor has quit, no replacement to come, so presumably he doesn’t need any more advice, certainly not before the election.
Then going back to 2014 the Government’s own GA inquiry led by Mr. Forsyth, which garnered 269 submissions and led to the Government accepting all bar two of some 37 recommendations, none of which have been implemented in any manner to halt the CASA induced decline of GA or the non aviation commercialisation of Commonwealth GA airports.
Next to consider the RRAT Senate Committee with Senator Susan McDonald in the chair. When this was announced with a two year timeline I think many of us thought that two years was too long but giving the benefit of the doubt to Ms. McDonald. That was wrong. Should have seen that this was simply a sop to get to the next election. Conveniently COVID19 provided the perfect excuse to stretch it even further, Zoom notwithstanding, to stretch it out that bit extra to make sure nothing could be accomplished before the election.
Call me cynical but what else could have happened? McDonald could have gone to the media, could have demanded reforms in the National Party Parliamentary
meetings. She could have put the interests of Queensland aviation, and by extension Australia’s best interests, ahead of her personal ambitions.
Facts speak for themselves, in all these years of promises, nothing; unless you give weight to tea and sympathy and a band-aid to the (should never have been separate) low weight category.
If this Minister was dinkum he would have told Goodmans that their ridiculous Moorabbin Airport Master plan was in the bin and taken plenty of other measures through CASA and its invisible, money wasting and utterly redundant Board to reinvigorate General Aviation.
At the same time he might have looked at the Glen Buckley unjust debacle and instructed CASA to come up with a fair compensation package.
If we’d had some previous demonstration that Ministerial responsibility has meaning then more action could be reasonably expected. But now it’s election time and Barnaby Joyce is doing nothing except showing himself around National Party territory looking for favourable publicity.
If proof was needed of the farcical nature of this supposed move to correct the irresponsible degradation of our irreplaceable secondary airports, National security assets, then read the proposal; to begin consultations.
Consultations. And not forgetting yet another exemplary example of the total lack of sincerity, stupidly, and a probably ignorant bureaucrat’s thought bubble, Minister Joyce says we will get yet another advisory body.
Words fail, didn’t they know (probably) or care that there’s already several other government aviation advisory bodies? There’s the GAAN, General Aviation Advisory Network and ASAP (truly! formed a couple of years ago, after 32 years of nothing but worse regulations), the Aviation Safety Advisory Panel and others. And Minister Joyce’s aviation advisor has quit, no replacement to come, so presumably he doesn’t need any more advice, certainly not before the election.
Then going back to 2014 the Government’s own GA inquiry led by Mr. Forsyth, which garnered 269 submissions and led to the Government accepting all bar two of some 37 recommendations, none of which have been implemented in any manner to halt the CASA induced decline of GA or the non aviation commercialisation of Commonwealth GA airports.
Next to consider the RRAT Senate Committee with Senator Susan McDonald in the chair. When this was announced with a two year timeline I think many of us thought that two years was too long but giving the benefit of the doubt to Ms. McDonald. That was wrong. Should have seen that this was simply a sop to get to the next election. Conveniently COVID19 provided the perfect excuse to stretch it even further, Zoom notwithstanding, to stretch it out that bit extra to make sure nothing could be accomplished before the election.
Call me cynical but what else could have happened? McDonald could have gone to the media, could have demanded reforms in the National Party Parliamentary
meetings. She could have put the interests of Queensland aviation, and by extension Australia’s best interests, ahead of her personal ambitions.
Facts speak for themselves, in all these years of promises, nothing; unless you give weight to tea and sympathy and a band-aid to the (should never have been separate) low weight category.