It starts at "the grass roots" of general aviation before it gets to the Industrial Unions.
When you have, what used to be, a one man operation in the bush, training and doing the odd charter, turn into a multi faceted CASAcentric, paper intensive, AOC regulatory overburden operation with criminal consequences, you have what we have now. A "clusterfcuk"
I have always said, there is no democracy on the flight deck, so the concept of a large number of "alpha" males/ (females) getting together and coming to any concensus is pure fantasy.
Asking our benevolent regulator to bin those same qualifications that got them the job in the first place, is similarly fantasy. We need leaders, not psychopaths in all facets of the industry.
1) CASA should regulate as as a CAA.
2) ATSB should investigate.
3) Federal police should prosecute.
Government needs to address item 1) first, as the regulations are unworkable for the other parties.