Here we go again.
Do we need another slooooow aircraft, government funded (probably), with STOL capability, in one of the biggest continents on the planet?
The Nomad is too slow, short of range. It cannot cover 400 nm range, with head wind and carry holding. The taxpayer paid for it last time, and it didn't work. We have 1500m airstrips every 300 nm, so why do we need STOL capability. Australia is huge, why build a slow aeroplane.
Why did Brazil, Switzerland and USA not approach OZ to buy the rights to build the Nomad when the production ceased? For the same reason they don't build new Austers and Tiger Moths.
We don't build HQ Holdens and Model T's for the same reason. They only reason some Nomads are still flying is they are cheap.
It's time to move on.