The fact that our aviation regs are posted on the Attorney General's website rather than the CASA website says something, doesn't it?
CASA have allowed the legal fraternity to get theor claws into something …
The lack of understanding evident in that statement is breathtaking but, unfortunately, ubiquitous.
CASA is created by one sentence in a law passed by the parliament.
CASA’s powers and functions are specified in laws passed by the parliament.
Delegated legislation must be made in accordance with laws passed by the parliament and the policies of the government of the day, then tabled for disallowance by the parliament. Regulations are made by the Governor-General, on recommendation from the Minister for Transport and Infrastructure. Only CAOs and small number of other legislative instruments are made by CASA. But they all have to be made, published and tabled in accordance with the same laws and policies.
The reason every aspect of daily life in Australia is being slowly regulated to death is that Australians keep electing dumb and dumber governments who are very happy to keep pumping out laws as fast as they can be made. Governments consider the making of a law to be an ‘achievement’ and ‘progress’. (Look at what the current government claims to be among its successes: the passage of thousands of pages of primary legislation that ultimately do only one of two things: tax the populace or create new criminal offences.)
The reason governments get away with it is because punters like CSD blame the regulators.
