Agreed. How many enquiries has it been now? Never any real outcome. The entire Australian aviation community know they are a basket case. Around $500m spent on a regulatory reform program that commenced in 1988 and is still not finished. They have been a dysfunctional utopia unto themselves since then. An organisation who thrives on bureaucracy, adding red tape, destroying individuals and businesses, wasting taxpayer money, adding rules and laws while repealing none, and the list goes on. CASA has been a loss making, economy destroying/inhibiting nightmare. Frankenstein has morphed into a beast of biblical proportions. They have cost the economy billions and will continue to do so. Save the Government our taxpayer money and do the following items as a starting point. And considering that Morrison isn’t afraid of dismantling and axing Departments and their non-performing Secretaries and bringing back former reputable bureaucrats to head up the changes, now is the perfect time to act;
- Appoint an interim Director to disband and replace the Board, the DAS (Carmody), Aleck, Anastasi, Crawford and the regional managers and start a fresh. A 2 year restructuring under a temporary position - Dick Smith to head it up.
- Put together a large disciplined team that will copy the NZ ruleset and implement a 3 year introduction program to bring those rules into place in Australia. Set milestones, goals and accountability.
- Assign a serious budget to undertake this reform of what was formerly CASA, into its new identity.
- Create an entirely new framework implemented even down to a corporate uniform which identifies them as what they are meant to be - regulators and public servants who are accountable under the public service act.
- CASA needs to be a Regulator, not a facilitator. Yet it needs to understand its impacts and that its decision making processes cannot unjustly or unfairly disadvantage businesses and the economy. It cannot act as a bully, interpret laws in a manner it chooses, and it has to be held to account and under constant scrutiny and oversight at the Ministerial level.
Restructure of the Frankenstein needs to start at the top and then work it’s way all the way down to the landscapers and the cleaners. Top to bottom reform, restructure, reset.