Folks,
It is well worth while looking at Senator Fawcett's CV. Most impressive.
Amongst a long list of achievement in his military career, he did a stint at ARDU ( an Army officer as CO of ARDU did not go down at all with with some in the RAAF), for which is was extremely well qualified.
He was commander of airborne forces for the 2000 Olympics.
He is why (as a result of his actions as a member of the House of Reps, MHR) the CASA obdurate obstruction of the civilian use of NVG was finally broken.
He keeps civil licenses current, there are very few in Australia who know more about helicopters, civil or military, than David Fawcett.
His treatment by CASA over NVG issues, when an MHR gave him an excellent grounding in CASA culture. You are now seeing that experience being put to good use in the Senate.
Tootle pip!!