The military own and fund the resources, and as mentioned previously, its not there to solve the problems of GA.
Trevor,
Are you serious, or just seriously deluded?? The military fund their resources??
There is absolutely not justification for the amount of military restricted airspace in Australia, for starters, and no justification for the restrictions on the use of navaids for practice, given the rarity of military movements at all but a few bases, and even at these, it is hardly high tempo.
The approach of the services here, compared to, say, the UK, US or Canada says something, and it is not good, about their psychological attitude to the Australian civilians that fund them.
The restrictions at Nowra top the lot, given that the navy has nothing to fly but a handful of helicopters -- if they have one serviceable.
Tootle pip!!