Have you considered that the reverse is true ---- the aviation community is so quiet and "respectful" that short of the Qantas Chairman's Lounge it is unknown to politicians and the public.--- and largely talks to itself.
The result (helped by generally ignorant media) is an industry functionally invisible to the "public", so that whatever happens in the "Canberra Bubble", aviation, but particularly GA, is impotent.
This about sums it up!
We fill these pages with all sorts of anger, excuses, reasons, suggestions the list goes on forever & ever BUT at the GA level we are so insignificant as far as the general public & corrupt Govt are concerned! Ask any citizen on the street about GA they will most likely say who/what? We are nothing, we mean little to other than ourselves, we are a minority group of rich aircraft owners (so the public believe) drowning waiting to go under for good & it's just around the corner! CASA who? Another authority that Mr & Mrs Joe public would never have heard of! As long as the 180 boguns at a time get to the Gold Coast for their holiday nobody cares! get used to it, GA is all but dead compared to the good old days & it ain't comin' back!