[Gobbledock]

'Of pulling a thread on Purple Haze's tie and watching it fall apart'.

I think that what is becoming patently clear is that ASA, it's CEO Purple Haze and it's Board Chairman Houston the bus driver have a very serious mound of elephant dung piling up in the middle of their lounge room;

- mass redundancies from a safety critical organisation.
- huge financial turnaround from mega profits to losses, and all this from a virtual money printing organisation that operates without any competition.
- the billion dollar Onefarce program
- overpaid executives and consultants.
- poor decision making with its purchase of specific software and hardware nationwide
- a culture of arrogance and ineptitude in the senior ranks.
- less than impressive ANAO audit.

And here is one for the Minister;

- the acceptance of the Board Chairman Sir An(g)us recommendation to appoint Purple Haze as CEO.
- the ongoing acceptance from the Minister to keep Houston on the Board and Purple Haze as CEO. Positions that can be terminated by the Minister under the Act.

I think the Senators have very clearly, and patiently, made two things clear at Estimates; they are willing to let Wingnut slip into the DAS role and give him a starting chance. Fair enough. They did the same with Skiddy 20 months ago. And secondly, ASA is under the microscope once again, and rightly so.

And bravo Senators - asking the questions of ASA that need to be asked. 1000 staff to go FFS. Where are the risk assessments for each position? And as these positions are culled and restructures take place one expects ASA to go back and review each of those changes after 6 or 12 months to ensure no safety risks have arisen from each change. That's a lot work Purple Haze,
I am sure you have a plan drawn up? Gotta close that loop old mate.

And CAsA, you had also better have a plan in place to finally start paying attention to the rather large moving and shaking taking place at ASA, because you as the regulator are meant to have oversight of this organisation. An organisation that has over 4,000 employees Australia wide working in complex safety critical roles. From where I sit CAsA doesn't even have a single small CMT team of a handful of people over sighting the massive ASA! Something very very wrong with that people! Oh, but of course you have teams of Inspectors chasing farm chopper pilots flying low on their 30,000 hectares of farm land.

Final thought, please DDDDazza the beautiful, throw Purple Haze and Houstoblame under your own bus.

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