Dick,
I agree that unnecessary costs to all aviators and operators should be removed. The economic factors that affect the industry here and now are significant and will remain for the next couple of years.
They won't last forever though.
As you've raised ADS-B, this may not be the best vehicle for you. Perhaps the current economic scenario justifies lobbying CASA to delay the mandatory ADS-B for a few years. By 2016 we should all be riding the wave again. Who knows, by then somebody may have developed something that knocks it for 6 anyway.