What do you think Dick? This is what the man himself said about the state of aviation in Australia:
Reviews into Australian aviation were nothing new, Forsyth said, with the ASRR the 10th government-initiated probe into the sector since the Plane Safe inquiry of 1995. Moreover, there had been seven reviews in the past seven years, including two conducted by a Senate Committee.
“Even in Australian aeropolitics that is not normal,” Forsyth said.
Have a look at what his expectations were about the CASA-industry relationship and then I think you can answer your own question fairly confidently but I suspect you already knew that.