Originally Posted by
Sandy Reith
...Ring write contact your local MP and State Senators for change because the experimental governance of aviation (31 years) by an independent Commonwealth corporate body is an abject failure.
You might get the message to some of them, but most of them wouldn't know what to do about it, Sandy.
Have a look at the whole page ad at page 7 of today's (Friday 22 November's)
The Australian. The people who spent a sh*tload of money to pay for that ad have addressed it directly to only 3 politicians for a reason: that's how you get the attention of all of them.
No criticism of you, Sandy, but I'll bet folding money that you've spent most of your life voting for one or other of the major parties. (Happy to hand over the folding to you, but the point remains the same
The comfy duopoly, and those who credulously perpetuate it by voting for them, are the primary problem.
The comfy duopoly means that a substantial number of politicians are now professional politicians with little-to-no experience doing anything productive, advised mostly by aspiring professional politicians and narrow interest group representatives, whose 'long game' - to the extent they have one - is self-preservation.
What do you think a bunch of concerned politicians would do? Shut CASA down? Then what? Australia still has to maintain the facade of compliance with the Chicago Convention (subject to voluminous notified differences of course). Set up a Department of Civil Aviation? Where to get the people to fill that department? Probably the same place from which they got the people to fill CASA after the CAA was shut down. And from where did they get people to fill the CAA, after the Department of Civil Aviation was shut down? The Department of Civil Aviation.
What politician would know
what should replace CASA or
how to build the replacement? They just turn to their advisers, who just turn to .... a hollowed out Department and CASA.
The minister responsible for the regulation of aviation and his advisers have an average 'shelf-life' of a couple of years. The shelf-life of those who run CASA? Decades. No contest.