Pera, do everything you can to keep the status quo. My statement in relation to the 1,000 foot vertical separation standard was clearly not referring to the standard where we are the same as the USA. It was referring to situations where we are different.
You left out the fact that horizontally, the US requires target resolution, whereas in Australia we do not accept this – even when the radar signal is coming from one radar head.
I find it fascinating that every post is trying to justify the status quo rather than looking at how we could do it better.
Remember that this is about human life. If the changes are not made I have no doubt that people will be lost (probably a young family) after their aircraft ditches in a rough ocean after being needlessly held by a military air traffic controller.