A forum owner who is on the board of RAaus says that it will all come through in april next year and he knows his stuff because he posted it on the forum.
Not quite - he said the new CASA CEO had said he had too much on his plate to even think about it before at least April - ie that it might come back for consideration sometime after April (if CASA's backlog is cleared by then!).
I assume that the project might then be restarted and run for another 3 years or so like its predecessor
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Seems to me this is just procrastination on CASA's part - they even say they can't see a problem, and ICAO doesn't have a problem. Unfortunately, decisionmaking doesn't seem to be one of the strong points of the CEO, looks like he's one to defer things hoping they'll go away.
At least with the other changes he knocked back, those who want CTA etc can just go get a PPL as many are doing. This one has broader implications for recreational aviation, whether RAAus or PPL.