I think if you go back and look at the numbers over the past 15 years or so, then the various attempts to introduce a new airspace system in Oz (NAS) has cost the industry both directly and indirectly well over M$100.
Dick is correctly highlighting yet another area where our funds are being mismanaged.
The mismanagement in ASA should be subject to a Royal Commission or similar high level inquiry. You watch the heads roll then! But would it improve?? who knows!
Maybe when the controllers stop work in Feb, some people in high places might take some notice......