In 2008 and 09 the FAA was actively consulting with the ATA regarding discarding a whole bunch of outdated regs. This included their Part 65 which they know is out of date and totally compromised, and replacing with Part 66.
At the same time AMROBA (Ken) was actively lobbying anyone that would listen that we should forget about Part 66 and adopt the FAA A&P (Part 65). His comments were reported in some of the aviation media at the time.
Even the FAA's Dr Bill Johnson commented on the AMROBA proposal ... that "Australia would be nuts" to adopt the old FAA regs, when the EASA regs were becoming the world standard. Indeed at the time the FAA were actually following the way Australia was adopting the EASA regs.
Nutty seems about right.
Anyway all I am saying is stay focused on the good ideas. And if you keep Ken's past personal issues with CASA out of it, you can do a lot of good.
As for the new regs
our current ****ty tampered with suite of pony pooh
the problem was not the regs but what OLC did with them plus the regulatory reform process was not finished.
And yes the Kiwi CAA has done a pretty good job, but take a look at the composition of their Board and Charter compared to the irrelevant mob on the CASA Board.