Torres, Old Mate,
To add insult to injury, the Balus program, which put the NZ rules in place in PNG (amongst other aviation reforms) was paid for by us, the good old Australian taxpayers, by way of a tied grant.
As part of the tender documents said: "------ because the Australian regulations are no longer regarded as usable" ---- and that was years ago.
The NZ rules were not just the FARs topped and tailed, our mates across the pond were much smarter than that, and got rid of years of accumulated regulatory detritus, and also picked up a few of the better bits of the JARs.
China has followed the NZ example, the new CCARs are largely FARs with minor amendments, with the same bits of EASA the kiwis found useful, largely Part 145, which is now FAR/EASA (JAR)145 anyway.
Balus was even headed up by Doug Roser, a name many of you will recognize from CAA days.
Tootle pip!!