Originally Posted by
Sunfish
The point is that we used to trust people in Australia.
well, unless you were from Asia in which case you were not allowed in so it didn't matter I guess.
Or were aboriginal, or part aboriginal or looked a bit too brown in which case you were not an appropriate person to raise your own kids.
Or female in which case you were expected to resign your job if you got married and would be arrested if you sat with a cool bevvie in the front bar (even if you were married).
Or if you wanted to do consensual things in the privacy of your own bedroom that didn't fit the required mold.
Or you wanted to go to a pub and have a drink after 6pm, or wanted to have a wager on the nags if you weren't at the track, or play poker for money, or wanted to read a particular book by D.H.Lawrence or one by Jackie Collins because you might have their morality corrupted, or wear a bikini at the beach (not that I ever have, OK... look, that was an accident and there was only that one time), or watch TV or listen to a radio without a licence (well up until 1974 when that socialist pinko Gough decided to abolish them
and they didn't even reimburse the poor law abiders who had paid for theirs before the 18 september!!
https://www.nfsa.gov.au/latest/radio-and-tv-licences), or wanted to open your shop after 5pm or criticise Joh in Qld or... god knows.
Other than that, yep, you were more trusted.
Well OK you were unless you possessed more than 50kg of potatoes and you were in WA and it was after 1946... well, actually that is still a law, you still can't possess more than 50kg of potatoes in WA (Think that is still the case) so I guess that kind of undermines my argument a bit.
Anyway I personally would like us to go back to the 60s. People back then didn't keep whinging about everything was going downhill and it was better back in the day. Well OK they did. But the briefing offices the government provided gave out free charts and you could submit a flight plan over the counter and discuss it with the briefing officer so there was that. Even if that was a little bit socialist.
Strewth... that felt good.
Seriously though... does CASA need an overhaul? emphatic yes.
Could things be made better? emphatic yes.
So is the world (and aviation in particular) going to hell because of woman and gays and people believe in climate change influencing the government and RAAF and CASA?... nah, sorry, not buying.
All of which of course will change no one's mind hear* but I have enjoyed having a spray!
* especially the spelling nazis... oh god... I have invoked Godwin's law
