The answer to your question must always be no.
The Civil Aviation Act empowers CASA to regulate aviation in Australia and Australian registered aircraft overseas. For CASA to encourage or promote aviation in Australia would contravene it's mandate, although it is empowered to "facilitate" in certain circumstances.
Conversely, the US FAA has always had a dual mandate by legislation: to promote aviation; and to regulate aviation. That regulatory mandate to promote aviation stems from the 1920's when the US Government pioneered air mail services within the country.
Theoretically at least, Australian legislation is the "will of the people" so you can't blame CASA if it abides by it's legislation and does not promote aviation.
The USA is, to my knowledge, the only ICAO state that requires it's regulator to also promote aviation. Certainly the UK and Europe both provide regulatory only legislation, the same as Australia.
Last edited by Torres; 22nd Apr 2007 at 09:15.