I agree Gaunty...my point is that while ADSB would be most excellent it would only be most excellent for a small % of aircraft in Australia and would REALLY benefit AsA 'cause they could save several motzas on infrastructure...that only exists because of the requirements of the big end of town.
Maybe before we go down the road tobzalp suggests we could simply mandate that all aircraft capable of getting in anyones way should have a transponder fitted (that sqawks a callsign), tested annually...and hotwired to the battery bus along with the fecking beacon.
Anyone who fecks up sufficiently as to cause an airprox gets their licence ceremonially burnt in front of them and the ashes presented in a little urn with their (former) ARN engraved on it.
I think that would about fix it.