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Bulk recruitment; one suggestion has it that employment contracts are up for renegotiation. 

More money. - Sandy.

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Off the Hmmm....  

Well hmmm...this is kind of topical  - 

The election countdown is in full motion and us gullible fools are nightly being fed the usual political half truths and vast piles of misinformation. The world is promised in the hope of a vote, as the Polliwaffles indulge themselves in sanctimonious bullshit which rarely if ever gets realised after the vote has been cast

Last night I watched the Jones and Credlin show on Sky and a piece about the NDIS set my mind wandering.
A 22 billion project to ease the suffering of disabled people and allow them to lead a life as close to normal as they were capable of achieving.

A political thought bubble with actual noble intentions, bipartisan support, free from self interest.

When it was announced I couldn't help feeling a little pang of pride in Australia seeking to take care of its most vulnerable, but in the pit of my stomach a nagging doubt, I desperately wanted to see it work, but as with so many government projects, that started with noble intentions, I feared it would get swallowed up in the miasma of Canberra bureaucrats who's self interest and pure ineptitude at managing anything would create a vortex of rules and paperwork that would suck money from the funds available like a Dyson vacuum cleaner, feeding an ever enlarging bureaucracy. My fears it appears have been realised.

Nothing in the public arena ever comes in on budget, not even close to budget, deals are struck with unions to siphon funds into nefarious union entities in exchange for industrial peace, supply gets overpriced by suppliers with a nudge and a wink from those supposedly managing the public purse, deals get done, soft corruption they call it, but there's nothing soft about it, I often wonder just how much of the allocated 22 bullion gets eaten up by administration.

The NDIS is buried in bureaucratic bullshit, its "clients" that's what they call them buried in paperwork trying to obtain the simplest things that would make their life easier. Each application carries a fee, that fee is deducted from their entitlement, how the hell does that help them? Giving on one hand and taking back on the other. A fire wall of call centres separates the 'clients" from the decision makers who make an art form out of not being available, classic bureaucrat obfuscation. The tragedy is the bastards who manage this don't give shit about their clients as long as their rice bowl gets filled every month.

Sound familiar?

The aviation industry is managed in the same way. CAsA don't give a shit about the industry they run. The big airlines are not so easy as they are cashed up with lots of legal and political pull, but the soft target of GA is ripe for the picking and picking they do. Sad really because its all so futile because once GA is finished they themselves become irrelevant.

‘Crat’s at work.



Thorny’s post above  - HERE – starts with a Credilin/Jones ‘look-at’ the situations as it stands now. Which is fantastic for about two minutes of air time which makes folks aware of the dire circumstances facing the less fortunate – so what? Where is the follow up; where is the resultant change emanating from this exposure of the dreadful treatment the ‘victims’ receive? Where is it? It is blowing in the wind of the ether. That’s where, gone and forgotten. Those responsible know the public have the attention span of a well trained racing rabbit; they also know that the next day, the kids need to be organised, the car needs washing, the garden mowing and the mortgage is due and ‘baby needs new shoes’. The 30 seconds of compassion felt lasts no longer than the end of the next advert break and is well gone by the time MKR starts.

If you're short of a quid, don’t ask a rich man; the bloke who will help you when you’re on crutches is the fellah who has been there and done that - the rest will simply view you as a nuisance, impeding their progress. It is a fact of life which is ruthlessly exploited by those in safe, secure billets – like the bureaucracy. Not one of them is wondering how to pay the latest electricity bill on a pension – too busy planning their long weekend escape with the latest squeeze. Whatever it was that made Australia a desirable place to live is lost to the next generation – ground down into a sludge of endless ‘approval’ for this – that – or the other. FDS what happened to the ‘spirit’ of this wide brown land? Lost, forever, in the never ending bureaucratic swamp.

Our politicians are ‘remote’ from the agencies running the system – and; they like it that way. Take ATSB or CASA as an example – those agencies, through the gutless chicanery of the political minders are so far beyond public control as to be scary. They are totally unaccountable to anyone for anything at all. Not even a Senate Committee. Hells Bells they even get ‘trained’ in ‘estimates’ management – can you believe that - or even imagine the cost associated with training the agencies to duck, weave, dive and obfuscate their way through questions a committee may ask? It is not a small number; which by-the-by, those getting ‘managed’ pay for. Ridiculous? Absolutely. And yet, like good little lambs to the slaughter we toddle along to the knife and happily say we live in a free country. I say it is time to end the rule of the bureaucrat and reclaim a ‘democracy’ which, even vaguely  represents ‘the will of the people’.

Everyone seems to want someone else to ‘do something’ – wake up for pities sake.

Low on the will of the people scale is aviation.

Thorny – “The aviation industry is managed in the same way. CAsA don't give a shit about the industry they run. The big airlines are not so easy as they are cashed up with lots of legal and political pull, but the soft target of GA is ripe for the picking and picking they do. Sad really because its all so futile because once GA is finished they themselves become irrelevant.

The entire industry is slowly going mad trying to understand what CASA at playing at – or with. Yet, the changes despite serious opposition keep getting pushed through. Why? BECAUSE THE INDUSTRY, LIKE GOOD LITTLE SHEEP ALLOW IT. Say NO – tell ‘em to bugger off and put it where the sun don’t shine. 

Awww! – Whatssamtta? Scared of the Boogey Man?

Boo!

And - penny finally drops at LMH:

...There is a bit of anecdotal evidence around at the moment that CASA's Regulatory Philosophy has about as much power and relevance as an ombudsman's recommendation: it's very good in theory and a great fallback, but doesn't have to be complied with if it's inconvenient. When the ASRR sparked a series of reforms within CASA several years ago, I took the position that the impact of reform can't be measured until there is clear difference at the point where CASA staff interact directly with the aviation community. Sadly, it seems now that the reforms have had no impact; the obstructionism and payback that marked CASA's attitudes pre-ASRR still characterise regulation more than the philosophy does. Furthermore, CASA is showing more signs of circling their wagons than they are of enforcing the philosophy on the staff it was written to govern. It is obvious that personal philosophy is being allowed to override regulatory philosophy, a situation that should not be allowed to continue. With this in evidence, how can the aviation community conclude that reform has achieved anything at all? Attitudes at the "coalface" have not changed and regulation is getting more and more obstructive with no increase in safety. I am most disappointed for those in the GA community that gave the "new" CASA the benefit of the doubt.

Read more at http://www.australianflying.com.au/the-l...9koiciG.99

Plus in response another classic Ruddles...

Richard RUDD • 14 hours ago

CAsA, Im afraid is still the 'same old, same old.' control freaking bureaucrazy.

Until there is either a Royal Commission or Judicial Inquiry into its failed state...it will just continue on its merry way buggerizing a vital industry.

Happy Easter All! - MTF..P2