Here we go again...... Another useless bureaucracy, Canberra based. Staffed by ex RAAF has beens. They will spend millions just on choosing the logo, then more millions on consultation with CASA, then tens of millions on writing the ops manual, diversity manual, gender equity rules, “liaison” committees involving all the states, environment groups, etc., etc. Then there is the task of selecting aircraft. It should only take two years after they have finished the ops manual to write the draft request for tender. Then eighteen months for a response, then twelve months for evaluation of responses and selection of successful bidder.
Folks, if I couldn’t spend half a billion and string it out to ten years before a drop of retardant fell from the sky from one of these aircraft, I would be a failed bureaucrat.
‘Successful businesses. like systems, start as very small and nimble operations that grow. Just look at the disaster of the NBN, etc. to see what happens when big government tries to do new things.