Well well folks, here we are again. As a reminder of what has been happening in regulatory purgatory and before we update you all, here is an important reminder -
Below is an extract of an article written by Paul Phelan, 22 October 2009, which pretty much covers this fact;
Industry identities this week were dismayed at a reported CASA decision to establish an in-house “Ethics and Conduct Committee,” apparently either bypassing or replacing the regulator’s Industry Complaints Commissioner (ICC).
CASA will not comment on details of the new group, understood to have been instituted by order of CASA Director John McCormick,
We asked CASA today: “I am aware that the Director has ordered the formation of an ‘Ethics & Conduct Committee’ within CASA and that the committee’s membership includes Messrs:- Terry Farquharson, who has recently been appointed Acting Executive Manager of the Office of the Director of Aviation Safety;
- Jonathan Aleck, currently Head of Legal Services; and
- Gary Harbor, Executive Manager, Corporate Services.
CASA advised it “can’t offer anything.”
We had also asked for missing details which would have defined the committee’s total membership, terms of reference, reporting lines, responsibilities in terms of published CASA policy, and means of ensuring its decisions will be able to be made independently of the committee members’ employers.
AviationAdvertiser holds ample documentation that reveals that at least two of the committee members we’ve named are the subject of numerous grievances currently under the scrutiny of the ICC, the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, the Federal Court, the Commonwealth Ombudsman and possibly other agencies – as well as a small mountain of even more unresolved issues.
Complainants cover the entire spectrum of industry activity within CASA’s responsibility. However we’re not identifying any of these at the moment because of the need to confer with each of the many victims, some of whom fear further adverse reactions from the regulator or from individual officials. They cover aircraft maintenance & overhaul services, aircraft and parts manufacturers, airworthiness issues, flight operations, AOC and workshop approval holders, and individual license and approval holders.
Other victims of alleged CASA abuses whose businesses and lives have been damaged by over-zealous and/or inadequately overseen, trained and supervised officials, say they are watching one of these matters – the events surrounding Polar Aviation’s lawsuit with great interest. See:
In 1996 the Attorney-General’s Department provided CASA with a legal opinion that (in part) warned that in relation to various legal actions which may be brought against CASA – such as negligence, including negligent misstatement, breach of confidence, injurious falsehood or misfeasance in public office – the government indemnity will not apply in favour of a CASA officer, where that officer is guilty of serious or wilful misconduct. “The likelihood that such actions would be brought, not only on the grounds of defamation, appears very high,” said the advice.
The Polar Aviation lawsuit, which was scheduled to be the subject of a directions hearing today, seeks unquantifiedd damages from three named CASA officials including Mr Farquharson, from three former officials, and also from CASA itself .industry figures believe the environment for generating further complaints is now increasing and that the risk exists, that members of the new committee may find themselves investigating complaints against themselves, many of which are already published documents. END.
Now, please go the the following link and read this submission from 5 years ago which was written by Joseph Tully, another victim of the CASA empire and of course Gary Harbor -
http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/rrat_ctte/casa/submissions/sub10.pdf
So, what do you notice from the link and your Google search of the name Joseph Tully ? That is correct, nothing has changed in the past 6 years or so at CASA. Senate enquiries are a waste of taxpayer money.
So there you have it, the latest offerings.
Now HR have already embarked on a witch hunt and are reeling in staffs laptops, paying for I.T investigations, have involved the AFP and possibly commenced P.I surveillance on some individuals they suspect of leaking information. Obviously the truth hurts, and the dirty secrets must be aired at all costs.
So Senator Xenaphon, your challenge is to open up this can of worms, clean out the ****e and push for an open and transparent inquiry at the very top. The question being 'are you up to the challenge' ?
To be continued