I think the combined ASIC / Licence idea is fantastic, even makes sense, who would have thought ?.
The ASIC incident was not CASA's doing, you can blame the knee-jerk reaction of the government followed by the shiny new DOTARS waving its magic heavy handed wand over an industry it would appear they know very little about ( transport security program was sold as an industry/DOTARS initiative, what a crock ).
It makes perfect sense to work out how much it cost to run CASA then work backwards to make up a schedule of standard fee's, unless you want CASA to be capitalists, you know supply and demand. As CASA is the only organisation that can do what it does, they could charge whatever they feel. ( have you ever had a leaky tap in a town that has only one Plumber ? ).
CASA listening, that is a fundamental change from not that many years ago, it is a good thing in my opinion.
We can put forward lots of good suggestions, but if it won't work for CASA, it won't happen. That doesn't make them bad at their jobs, that suggests the Government is trying to acheive the unacheivable perhaps.