I am not in favour of the "sting" performed, it does nothing but to promote distrust between the operator and the regulator.
Distrust!!!..good grief where are you from??. Anyone who talks to CASA without their lawyer present is a fool. CASA is now so endemically corrupt
that any trust has long gone. Until CASA's charter is changed to reflect, as the FAA's does, that its decisions MUST consider the economic impact and well being of the industry it supposedly regulates then there will continue to be a total disconnect between the industry and the regulator.
These are not people with "Probity" we are dealing with, they are misfits and incompetents.