Full marks for your well composed letter, DirectAnywhere - if more PROFESSIONAL pilots take the time to send a letter to the Government and the media, perhaps this dangerous, retrograde step has a chance of being ammended.
If a midair collision occurs, then Mr Andersen and his supporters should, imo, be held responsible for their culpable actions, which they have ploughed ahead with, IN SPITE OF the opposition of the professionals who use the airspace daily.
Previously Australia had the protection of the AFAP - the same organisation that pressured the government to instal radar at Coolangatta and Cairns - as the voice of ALL domestic professional pilots were represented through the Federation.
RV8builder sounds a little (or a lot) like Dick Smith, and his boast of, "We stopped full VFR reporting - the world didn't end.
We got rid of RFFS at all but major cities - don't see any piles of burnt wrecks.
We tried Airspace 2000 - ahh, you got a win there with the help of the RAAF and a gulible media." only seems to reinforce the idea that some people are intent on pulling apart, brick by brick, one of the safest airspace systems in the world - their criteria for knowing WHEN to stop, would seem to be once we have an increase of aviation DEATHS!