Meglomania
If you have ever taken note of the behaviour of afore mentioned Trick Dicky or read any of his biographies you would know him as a man who MUST take and be in charge...
I would love to bebate if he is in charge as they already have in Parliament.
I quote from Hansard:
Before we knew it, Dick Smith visited the Liberal Party court and soon announced that he would not run in Gwydir. We do not know what happened in those discussions but, soon after the election, the minister put him in charge of airspace design and reform. The design and development of our airspace has been outsourced to Dick Smith. The result is that not one person on the Airspace Reform Group has air traffic control or airline pilot
qualifications.
The proposed NAS system does not have widespread industry support and it will put the Australian travelling public at risk. It is one thing to lose ownership of Telstra, and it is another thing to spend millions of dollars to prop up a friend's industry; but to risk the aviation and the travelling public's safety to deliver a political outcome-in essence, to get Mr Dick Smith not to run or support a candidate in Gwydir at the 2001 election-is unforgivable.
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