It seems that CAIR is to be resurrected by another name: the Aviation Confidential Reporting Scheme (REPCON).
Obviously someone finally woke up to the fact that the ATSB suddenly had one of its best sources of information cut off at the knees by the introducion of the all-but-useless ASRS scheme.
Details at
http://www.atsb.gov.au/aviation/occurs/acrc.cfm