How about this one, that goes right to the heart of the subject matter of this thread:
How can the Australian Government and industry ensure CASA completes its longrunning regulatory reform process as soon as possible, to give clarity to industry and to clear the way for new approaches to meeting the regulatory challenge?
Answer: If the new government has to ask that question, it continues to be part of the problem, not the solution.
I am appalled that CASA will now have yet another excuse for not completing the regulatory 'reform' process. Naturally it will have to wait for the 'Green Paper' to be finalised, so that it knows what to do during this lap around the merry-go-round. Perhaps some more 'CEO Directives', and training in what they mean, will be in order. Of course, the end date of the process will have to be 're-established'.
I note that the Department's description of the process contains precisely the sort of spin-doctored, passive-voice weasel-words as CASA has used to avoid meeting any 'deadlines':
It is anticipated that the Green Paper will be released for industry comment in the latter half of 2008.
Who anticipates that, and who cares what they anticipate?
For heaven's sake: Set a
deadline for the achievement of an
outcome.
Have the integrity to make, and to take responsibility for making, a
decision.
Govern! (if you can remember how.)