Chris Higgins.
You are being a little naive if you think Dick only wants to reveal poster's identities so 'it can be in the Australian culture'.
Is it really in the spirit of the Australian safety culture to be frightened to speak up on a national safety concern with fear of reprisaltry action?
WHO do you think creates that fear- the poster, or Dick? Take a look at the Broome DAS. Dick's main reply was to attack the integrity of the authors- he even wasted money on getting his own experts to do so. Why would you do that, unless you realise that he couldn't win the argument on the facts, so he has to play the man? It's good politics, but crap airspace management.
As stated by others- if you work for the government, you ARE NOT ALLOWED TO SPEAK PUBLICLY. So what to do? Keep silent, and watch the disaster unfold? Should only rich, powerful, private aircraft owners have input into something that affects EVERYONE?
Class E airspace does not work without radar monitoring and full traffic participation-period! It never has, and it never will.
Class 'E' is specifically non-participatory. The yanks work it differently to ICAO- and that is part of the problem here. The yanks realise that the problems arise when you mix small slow a/c with faster, bigger ones. They mitigate using radar- but it doesn't specifically say that anywhere, they just do. And the one in- one out system; explain that using 'the rules'! It's more restrictive than what happens in oz, and is the type of airspace that oz has lots MORE OF. The pre- Nov 27 airspace was much better at handling those sorts of movements. Dick doesn't understand that.
The yanks have 'evolved' their airspace, and it is not something you can just 'transplant'. Dick just doesn't get that.