Tend to agree that the standard of reports coming out of the ASTB is getting worse. Most reports these days a full of quotes etc about human factors from other sources and no real meat anymore. A lot of the reports they produce about incidents involving QF, Jetstar and Virgin are copies of the reports the safety departments from those airlines have produced ie they are letting the airlines do all the work and then take credit for it.
Have a read of some of reports the NSTB or the AAIB have produced such as the Q400 crash and they contain far more than just quotes on human factors and the like.
Perhaps it's time to start a new thread about the standard of the ATSB reports coming out.