Airservices Australia said safety is always the services’ first priority.
“We have temporarily reduced traffic throughput to manage flights safely within the capacity available,” it said.
Then reduce the capacity available to zero so we'll have perfect safety.
The spin is that none of Airservices' shortcomings have any safety impact. CASA is contributing to the spin. ATSB? Who cares.
If, for example, the absence of SFIS at Ballina has no safety consequence, then it should be abandoned completely, as should the pretence that there'll be any ATC there any time soon.