machtuk,
Sadly, a very accurate reflection.
The Australian aviation sector is a shadow of what it should be, and the aviation bureaucracy is largely to blame ---- not just CASA and Airservices, the latest and the worst, but over many years.
Australia went the wrong way post World War One, and never corrected. Read or re-read and understand Donald Horne's "The Lucky Country".
Tootle pip!!