Folks,
And just to remind everybody, the Australian NAS based on the North American/FAA model, for airspace design and management, plus:
mandatory risk analysis of any airspace proposal, plus;
mandatory benefit/cost justification for any proposal to proceed, and;
the statutory duty of Airservices ( and indirectly CASA in matters airspace) to "foster and promote" aviation in Australia
was all built into the original Airspace Act 2006. Go look it up, anybody who doesn't believe me.
But CASA and Airservices both hated the idea, and soon as a compliant Minister with dud non-aviation aviation advisers appeared, the Airspace Act 2006 was amended, all that is there now, instead of hard targets and mandated policies, are anodyne "motherhood" statements with nil/zero/zilch performance requirements.
Just the shot to produce the blithering nonsense of 40 nm CTAFs.
Tootle pip!!