Both CASA and HPRA have the same mission; to regulate the provision of safety sensitive goods and services to the general public. The business objective is similar; CASA regulates the provision of the total aviation system: - training, equipment, organizational design and operations. AHPRA apparently is responsible only for the quality of surgeons and not the surgical infrastructure.
It has been argued that CASA micromanages aviation and is specifically required by the Act to be unresponsive to economic imperatives of the industry ie: - “safety above everything else”.
AHPRA appears to represent the reverse approach; it is apparently funded purely by the surgery industry. The outcome of that appears to be regulatory capture by the surgeons it claims to be regulating with predictable and devastatingly bad results.
The lesson is clear; Advocates of Aviation reform need to be careful what they wish for.