Sorry "K" and Oleo slight drift here and by the way I'm stuck on six across??
As if anymore needed to be added to Beaker’s systemic causal chain to relegating what was once regarded worldwide as being in the top 2 of aircraft accident investigation authorities, well it seems that mimimiBeaker keeps digging a bigger hole
. Take a look at some of his answers to Senator X’s written QONs for the 28/02/2013 public hearing:
2. Since the Lockhart River inquest in 2007, how has the ATSB’s relationship with CASA changed?
o Does the ATSB still acknowledge oversight of CASA’s role as regulator?
ATSB response: The ATSB has never had oversight of CASA’s role as a regulator.
Its role is independently to investigate transport safety matters.
This was confirmed by Parliament in the passage of the Transport Safety
Investigation Act 2003 and in the establishment of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau as an independent commission in 2009.
In the second reading speeches for both of these changes, it was highlighted that the ATSB must be independent from parties or actions that may have been directly involved in the safety occurrence or that had some influence on the circumstances or consequences of that occurrence. For example, the ATSB must be free to investigate and comment on any significant role of the regulator in a particular occurrence and as such must not itself play a regulatory role in the
industry. Investigations that are independent of transport regulators,
government policymakers, and the parties involved in an accident, are better positioned to avoid conflicts of interest and external interference.
Maybe we could map a chronology of the way the bureau has evolved in recent years? It could be labelled ‘Watchdog to Lapdog the Beaker years’!
Senator X QON 2 continued (my bold):
o If so, in what practical sense does the ATSB carry out its duties in this
regard?
ATSB response: The ATSB does not have oversight responsibilities for CASA.
o If not, who now has oversight of CASA?
ATSB response: The Civil Aviation Act 1988 clearly sets out accountability arrangements for CASA including reporting to Parliament and the Minister.
It also sets out the role of the CASA Board which includes deciding on the objectives, strategies and policies to be followed by CASA; ensuring CASA performs its functions in a proper, efficient and effective manner; and ensuring that CASA complies with certain directions given by the Minister. (note: Maybe Beaker is finally shining the light??)
So Albo’s circus is the mob that is tasked with the oversight of the heavily entrenched sociopath behemoth that is currently our regulator. Yet our minister is so disenfranchised from industry and his only line prattled out repeatedly is to say that the
…“White Elephant is the holy grail..all hail the White Elephant”!!
Maybe the strongest conclusion that comes out of all this corrupt mess is that our bureau either files for divorce from DOIT (and perhaps cohabitates with the Senate as godfather), or it be consigned to oblivion forever because it is obviously no longer operating independently without ‘fear nor favor’ and no longer operating in the public or industry interest.
Okay after that small interlude back to the FFBKCP and FFCBSS bashing, after all it is much more fun!
