More scudrunning??
This is obviously admirable and great theory. In fact it is another thing to discourage IFR flying in Australia, and will result in more scudrunning and probably CFITs because people will try to avoid the cost.
We have a crazy culture that tells pilots that IFR flying is very difficult and expensive and only the big operators should be doing it.
This sort of thinking can lead to very undesireable things, and was probably a factor at Lockhart river. IFR flying should be simplified and encouraged if we want to reduce scudrunning.
There is a seneca (or the remains of it) on a mountain in South Australia which was a near new, IFR equipped aircraft owned and flown by a businessman who could afford a rating and flew quite a lot. He did not have an instrument rating and died from a CFIT when trying to use VFR techniques in moderately cloudy weather.