Sunfish,
Well said.
Fact is, the determined and wilful ignorance of the proper meaning of "risk management" is , aviation-wise, not confined to CASA.
To wit, one well known pilot's union that insists that a perception of a risk, even when no risk can be established as existing in the real world, must still be treated as a genuine "risk" and mitigated regardless.
It is clear that, with only a small handful of exception, nobody in the aviation sector has ever bothered to attempt to understand the principles that underlay risk management and cost benefit justification, much less read and understand risk management standards, either the old AS/NZ 4360, or the later ISO standards, much less Government (both sides of the House) policy on the subject, policy pointedly ignored by CASA because of a perverted interpretation of S.9A of the Act.
Tootle pip!!