The link – HERE - will give you view of a Paul Phelan essay which was drafted some time ago now; but the predictions and forecast have been proven.
Worth a read – if you still need an aerodrome to conduct your business.
Definitely a must read:-
Quote:Author’s Preface (May 2016)
This analysis was originally prepared in 2010 to assist petitioners to (then) Infrastructure Minister Albanese in a similar matter to the one now before the AAT . As such it represents a snapshot in time 2010 in relation to events which in multiple ways have been employed to circumvent the protections provided to secondary airport and local ownership airport users under the Airport Local Ownership Plan, Lease contracts and deeds of transfer. The analysis has been modified only to the extent that the section headed “Jandakot” and the first line of the Introduction below have been updated to reflect related situations and events.
Most of the situations identified in this study still exist at various airports, and in the main the industry attributes them to the inertia of the responsible department through its failure to enforce the terms of lease or transfer as applicable.
Worth a read – if you still need an aerodrome to conduct your business.
Quote:Summary.
Clearly the airports cannot be trusted to be their own regulators. Dumping the quasi-government powers that the FAC held straight over to the managements of the privatised airports was a ludicrously incompetent act, and allowing this ever-worsening situation to continue, further demonstrates the ineptitude of successive responsible administrations.
The Commonwealth has clearly failed adequately and effectively to monitor the activities of organisations who control both GAAP and ALOP airports. This failure extends over the present and previous two governments and to the relevant Ministers and their departments throughout that period.
The Roofing Insulation debacle, and the educational building program have nothing on this series of failures. The current Minister and his department now have a duty to restore the nation’s airports to a status which meets the requirements set out in the legislation, published policies and lease documents already in place.
They also have the tools to do so, and ongoing neglect of their obligations would represent a grave breach of the respective obligations of the public officials involved.
Definitely a must read:-