SWH:
I disagree with the premise that CASA "made those bad laws in the first place", our laws are made by politicians (often written by the Attorney Generals Department). It is parliaments role to debate their merits before they are enacted, if we have bad laws, it is the politicians that dropped the ball.
Government Departments administer the law, they are to some extent just the messenger and facilitator, they are also limited under the law as to what they can do.
LIKE HELL THEY DO!
Government Ministers will not do ANYTHING without receiving
advice from the public service!!!!! The Fcuking Minister who introduced the laws giving CASA its powers would know that they were written, if not by, in deep consultation with, CASA.
Furthermore, Ministers and back benchers do not have a snowballs chance in hell of finding the time to debate such weighty matters as whether a private pilot should be allowed to carry a commercial photographer for hire and reward. There probably isn't even a single pollie in any Australian Parliament with a pilots licence.
The proposed legislation is given to the Parliament by its drafters as a complete package and that is the end of it unless it is going to have some wide ranging effect on the average mug punter, like a GST or carbon tax. The laws and regulations governing CASA were most probably presented and debated by a half empty chamber at 10.00 pm on a winters night.
To suggest otherwise reveals either a deep misunderstanding of legislative process or an intent to deliberately mislead.
It is perfectly clear that the regulations are deliberately vague and stated in their current convoluted format because it maximises CASA powers while minimising their accountability for their behaviour in terms of equity and natural justice. Look no further than the "treatment" meted out to Butson and Polar Air, which I believe is still the subject of a lawsuit.