This thread has gone on such a tangent it's past escape velocity. For goodness sake this is simply an industrial dispute related to pay and conditions.
ASA: reduction of conditions; restructure and massive reduction in salary for newly recruited controllers; and marginal salary increase (negative in real & CPI & all-sectors-increase terms) for existing controllers.
Civil Air: alignment of conditions with other ATC providers and comparable local professions; catch-up salary increase; cost reduction through Canberra senior management consolidation.
Looks like it'll end up being arbitrated anyway, so let the Commission decide on the merits.