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Re-reading my post above I still shake my head on the layers of bureaucratic obfuscation , spin & bulldust that has been put in place to create the illusion that all's well in the World of aviation in the land Down Under - what a load BOLLOCKS!  

Wonder what the breakdown would be to administer the charade of over 3000+ notified differences to ICAO, not to mention the kickbacks to certain ICAO officials and the many WOFTAM trips to Montreal - FFS!

Anyway to follow on from Dougy's last hoorah on AvBiz:

Observation Deck

25 Feb 2016 - P2 obs - Hmm..strange apparently Dougy is three weeks ahead of himself??

So Airservices’ Rob Walker has got the gig as head of CASA’s new Stakeholder Engagement division and he starts mid-April. That’s a first class appointment with positive implications for industry. Good choice, Mark Skidmore and the CASA board!

Now for the hard work. Industry will expect to see something from Rob pretty quickly, but he’s up for that sort of challenge.

And Shane Carmody will take up his new role as Assistant Secretary at Infrastructure in the first week of April. Another excellent appointment.

Not only are we getting the right people in the right roles, we appear to have a Minister who is on a mission to genuinely engage with industry right across the spectrum. He was quick to accept an invitation from Rex’s John Sharp to meet with a select industry group in an informal scenario earlier this month. And he’s not shy of finding 15 or 30 minutes in his hectic schedule to spend time with individuals and groups who have perspective to offer.

Again, the proof of the pudding is in the action to follow, but this is a very good start.

Ok tin hat donned, ear plugs in, standing by for incoming

In an update to this Paul Phelan has caught up with the news and his take is that the Carmody appointment is a positive thing, via ProAviation..

 
A significant new aviation appointment


Former CASA Deputy CEO Shane Carmody was appointed on April 1 as Deputy Secretary, Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development, with what the Department describes as “broad overarching responsibilities in aviation.”


These include Aviation and Airports, the Office of Transport Security, Local Government and Territories and the departments’ Western Sydney Unit which includes infrastructure planning for Badgery’s Creek.


The appointment and its aviation focus have been welcomed by industry identities familiar with Mr Carmody’s previous efforts which included improving CASA’s service delivery and timelines, says an industry observer:


“He brought in a number of changes to CASA administration and I very quickly noticed changes in the time it took to do various tasks. He also put in place a series of key performance indicators (KPIs) which they [CASA] put on their web site and which showed industry how long CASA took for things like pilot licences, AOC amendment approvals, average time to get medicals sorted out – all those things where the industry should be able to see whether CASA is performing acceptably on its general administrative tasks.”


Immediately prior to his current appointment Mr Carmody was Deputy Secretary/Chief Operating Officer (COO) at the Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA), a position he held from June 2014. In this role he was responsible for organisational transformation and DVA’s $12bn pa business operations across compensation, rehabilitation and health service delivery.


He has extensive experience at senior levels in the Australian Public Service, from policy formulation to service delivery. His roles have included Deputy Secretary Intelligence and Security and Deputy Secretary Strategy in the Department of Defence, Deputy CEO of CASA, and Deputy President of the Repatriation Commission and COO of DVA.


Highlights of Mr Carmody’s APS career to date include direct oversight of the three Defence Intelligence Agencies and the Defence Security Authority, developing and implementing Defence Strategy and International Policy; managing diverse regulatory activities with CASA and driving DVA’s business transformation through cultural change, digitisation and business process reform.


Mr Carmody studied Bahasa Indonesia at Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.  He has a BA from the University of Queensland, an MBA from Monash University and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Gobbles seems to think he is just another filter layer for the Murky Mandarin. Personally I don't know him and therefore I have no opinion on the guy.

Maybe Carmody will be locked away in the pencil cabinet sorting out the next round of notified differences to ICAO, because it certainly sounds like he is at least efficient at shuffling paper -


MTF...P2