“I don’t think that you should ever regard aviation safety as what is affordable. Safety is something which has the highest priority – it is not a question of cost.”
John Anderson, Australia’s longest serving transport Minister, in the Namoi Valley Independent newspaper, Thursday 5 October 2000.
So here we have a Deputy Prime Minister basically stating a lie and getting away with it.
Have a look at Mr Anderson’s
Wikipedia entry.
It raves on about what a fantastic Deputy Prime Minister he was and how he was praised when he eventually retired. There is not one mention in the entry of him actually doing anything for the aviation side of the Transport portfolio.
As we know, he propagated these “lies” that you don’t need to have affordable aviation regulations. He got away with that and by the look of it, the next Minister has been advised (by bureaucrats earning $600,000 or $700,000 per year) to do the same thing.
It is almost as if our democracy is not working any more.