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Sandy still banging the drum on GA decimation - 

For and on behalf of Sandy via the Oz in comments:

Elena

@Quentin @Alexander
 
In 2014, the Commission of Audit recommended that 65 per cent of government agencies could be rationalised or abolished i.e. some 890 agencies are not needed and if abolished could save $70B annually

(P2 comment: Bye the bye, I believe Elena (above) was quoting from a recent Cory Bernadi blog: Coalition's Labor Budget) 

Alexander

Elena thank you for information, putting a number on it is important to give us scale.

That amount of saving alone would likely reduce the deficit substantially. Not to mention the economic boost by reducing red tape, cutting fees for unnecessary regulatory permits and dispensing of bureaucratic time delay. As just one example, for anyone who thinks that in the main permissions are reasonable, here is typical situation.

A senior flight instructor wishes to restart a flying school at a regional airport, the previous incumbent works for the Civil Aviation Safety Authority in the area of permissions. A fee of $8000 upfront is required to process the application in accordance with a supposedly standard CASA model operations manual. Twelve months later and much binding in the marsh still not done. 

Repeat this scenario thousands of times by all the other 'independent' Commonwealth Corporate bodies, Departments and hundreds of other instrumentalities to appreciate the pervasive magnitude of our dysfunctional system.

Regarding flying school example, in the US of A no such permission required, and many US pilots ply their skills in Australian skies if proof were needed to justify what commonsense tells us. We can't afford the present trajectory, also that $70 billion of 2014 would be more like $80 or $90 billion today. Alex

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& in reply to a Judith Sloan Oz article:

Alexander

@Jenniffer

Kelly O'Dwyer has no policies of her own any more than most of the Ministers. It's really obvious that the convoluted machinery of the anti free enterprise regulatory bank control system is purely work of the ever more inventive bureaucracy.

Ask how many more highly paid bureaucrats (we don't have public servants any more) will be needed to asses strict compliance to a few thousand pages of new rules that can only be interpreted with force by whim of the all powerful bureaucracy. Shades of our dysfunctional $ black hole Air regulator CASA which is destroying General Aviation. Rule of law? Out the window.

Follow the money as it is being sucked into the 400,000 strong artificial city of Can'tberra.
With apologies to Simon Birmingham who, with little support, is making an effort to prevent the whole country from being totally submerged in a Greek type debt from which recovery is near impossible. Alex in the Rises.

MTF...P2