Some hope of justice, but…
QFF asks the obvious question after reading the Finance Department advice about Act of Grace payments. You would have to wonder if either Ms. Spence or Mr. Binskin have read the same. Charitably we’d have to assume that they have already spoken to the Minister’s delegate who is in charge of recommendations and gained an ‘in principle’ approval.
Well that’s just a maybe, consider Ms. Spence’s statement about a CASA proposed self declared medical as a “world first.” This statement is found in Ms. Spence’s latest ‘Briefing.’ Astonishingly, is Ms. Spence is ignorant of some 70 years of the gliding fraternity and 40 years of RAAUS self declaring to car driver standard?
Let alone the USA BasicMed that could, but won’t, be a good example to follow.
She talks about a move to trusting pilots, is this a joke? Our whole democratic society is based on trust, every time we are on the road we trust our fellow citizens, for just one of thousands of examples of ‘trust.’
Sorry to be blunt but on a salary of $650,000 you might think that the CASA CEO would be across obvious and critical details. And in particular be able to discern the sham arguments put up by CASA’s legal department against Glen Buckley because she has, as yet, been unable to reach the obvious conclusion that CASA itself should recompense Glen Buckley in exactly the same way she has acknowledged the wrong in preventing Glen’s employment in a flying job, and subsequent obligation to recompense for that disgusting injustice.
It is high time that CASA is disbanded and put back into a Department with Minister where it should be in the Westminster system of responsible government.
The problem with the CASA corporate model of governance is that there’s insufficient incentive to change course and make the reforms that have been obvious for years, even as expressed in the Forsyth Report of 2014 where the government agreed to almost all of the recommendations, practically all of which had some lip service only as CASA ‘progressed’ its ever more restrictive, costly and complex rules.
Could Ms. Spence find the courage to actually take charge and make decisions for reform and quickly force her underlings to comply? The USA rules work and we’ve incorporated parts of their practical system to real advantage in the 90s and could do so again.
Otherwise to Glen and his wife, well done and congratulations for persevering and gaining in principle recognition of the wrongful action of CASA against you, you have done all of GA a great service by calling out CASA.