"Every man for himself"!
On page 9 of the Hansard Senator Fawcett 
nails the implications of such an ugly cover-up..."Think about the reasonable man in the street, seeing a statement like that—which said: 'We won't go any further down this path, because we're happy the regulator his doing his job'—and knowing that the regulator had internal reports saying that the FRMS was not adequate. I accept your position: the UK is not necessarily an answer. But the issue for this inquiry is that you had in your possession information that would have triggered to the ATSB the fact that your oversight was not adequate. They were assuming that it was a defence that was in place and effective. You had written evidence saying that that was not the case. And by not disclosing that information, you have in fact shaped the outcome of the ATSB report. That is one of the concerns that the committee has...."
And yet it takes at least another two pages for the DAS to concede that maybe he got it wrong!!
The mind boggles...
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