01-31-2018, 10:17 AM
From the CASA website:-
“Our Board
The Minister appoints the Board and provides the Board with a statement of expectations. The Board is responsible for deciding the objectives, strategies and policies to be followed by CASA and for making sure that CASA performs its functions in a proper, efficient and effective manner.”
Obviously the Board has been incapable of causing CASA to “perform....in a proper, efficient and effective manner.” That is, neither the present Board nor in years past.
If nothing else, CASA’s inability to rewrite the rules after 30 years and counting, would be sufficient for a responsible government to at least question whether there is a structural or systemic problem in the regulation of aviation in Australia. But add to this extraordinary fact the possibility of our aviation world being downgraded by the FAA then surely a new Minister would have reason to make changes. NZ seems to manage it’s international aviation standing pretty well on a fraction of the money we spend on CASA, upwards of $150million pa.
The call for an independent inquiry I understand but do not support. Years ago perhaps, but the Can’tberra dynamic is so incestuous, its become an inquiry factory that generates far more heat than light. The Government appointed “independent umpire” concept, much loved in Australia as a sure fire method of fixing anything is a myth, a comfort blanket approach which diverts responsibility to those who legally cannot exercise it.
Another inquiry would be welcomed by Can’tberra all and sundry with heaps of overtime in the offering, lots of meetings to decide who will represent whom and how. By the time The Inquiry has finished spending and enriching itself and government mulls over the results, forwarding to Directly Involved Persons, the routine, etc., where are we then? Just about where we were one year after the ASRR Forsyth report.
The shocking malaise that infects aviation in this country can only be cured by politicians. There is no substitute for political action, this is the hard yards. Going to meetings, writing, ringing newspapers and MPs. Talkback radio, magazine and article comment. Anything that will give publicity to educate the public and give reason for MPs to want change.
“Our Board
The Minister appoints the Board and provides the Board with a statement of expectations. The Board is responsible for deciding the objectives, strategies and policies to be followed by CASA and for making sure that CASA performs its functions in a proper, efficient and effective manner.”
Obviously the Board has been incapable of causing CASA to “perform....in a proper, efficient and effective manner.” That is, neither the present Board nor in years past.
If nothing else, CASA’s inability to rewrite the rules after 30 years and counting, would be sufficient for a responsible government to at least question whether there is a structural or systemic problem in the regulation of aviation in Australia. But add to this extraordinary fact the possibility of our aviation world being downgraded by the FAA then surely a new Minister would have reason to make changes. NZ seems to manage it’s international aviation standing pretty well on a fraction of the money we spend on CASA, upwards of $150million pa.
The call for an independent inquiry I understand but do not support. Years ago perhaps, but the Can’tberra dynamic is so incestuous, its become an inquiry factory that generates far more heat than light. The Government appointed “independent umpire” concept, much loved in Australia as a sure fire method of fixing anything is a myth, a comfort blanket approach which diverts responsibility to those who legally cannot exercise it.
Another inquiry would be welcomed by Can’tberra all and sundry with heaps of overtime in the offering, lots of meetings to decide who will represent whom and how. By the time The Inquiry has finished spending and enriching itself and government mulls over the results, forwarding to Directly Involved Persons, the routine, etc., where are we then? Just about where we were one year after the ASRR Forsyth report.
The shocking malaise that infects aviation in this country can only be cured by politicians. There is no substitute for political action, this is the hard yards. Going to meetings, writing, ringing newspapers and MPs. Talkback radio, magazine and article comment. Anything that will give publicity to educate the public and give reason for MPs to want change.