Many RA Instructors are also GA instructors a situation that reflects the cost of operating a GA fleet that burns avgas by the bucketful.
I own a VH registered aircraft and have held a PPL for more than 30 years. I started flying long before that when I took up gliding and I also have an RA certificate.
My experience is that all of us who fly responsibly for pleasure strive to improve our skills and genuinely promote safety in aviation irrespective of our registration and licensing system. There will always be a small minority which tries hard to make life miserable for the rest of us.
We should be standing up, not as GA or RA devotees but as pilots united together expressing our contempt for and disassociation from the activities that allegedly occured at lake Hume.
If we can't fly united together we shall surely fall foul of the regulator, the media and government and be grounded together.
kaz