Hot damn! Was it the bamboo shoots under the nails or the electrodes on the testicles, Gaunty? Do you also confess to having failed to enter defects on maintenance releases, and to having made turns in the wrong direction while in the vicinity of aerodromes? I could get my junior woodchuck investigator’s badge out of this!
This aviation lark is such fun. All your rules seem to include the “unless you feel like it or you don’t realise you’re not supposed to” exception. You must not manipulate the controls of an aircraft you’re not authorised to operate (unless you feel like it or you don’t realise you’re not supposed to). Don’t go round the circuit in the wrong direction (unless you feel like it or you don’t realise you’re not supposed to). Don’t enter defects on pieces of scrap paper instead of the maintenance release (unless you feel like it or you don’t realise you’re not supposed to). The qualifications for holding your licence include an understanding of the local rules (unless you don’t understand the local rules).
Here’s me thinking that experts made these rules as a consequence of long and sometimes bitter experience, which experience demonstrates that even the remotest of risks in aviation can have catastrophic consequences. If there are no safety risks involved in committing the sins to which you have now confessed, why did some goose make a rule prohibiting them, and why hasn’t the rule been changed?
But all of this is, as you acknowledge, beside the point of this thread. I don’t see what reasonable objection there can be to releasing all the relevant records given that, according to the government and CASA, they will reveal the Director to have been a man more sinned against than sinning.