Oleo and Steve,
I have been pondering your words of wisdom whilst inspecting the garden for weeds (actually sitting in the sun and cogitating on the unfairness of it all, with a beer in hand).
The correlation between weeds and politicians is very similar, they start small but eventually spread and cause other plants (issues) *to be smothered.*
So what is needed is a fire in the belly party, and I'm suggesting that if the folk within the aviation community impress Bob Katter and the KAT, with the type of argument or issues discussed by Steve, with the added impetuous of votes going their way the possibility of a voice in the wilderness being heard is magnified. And perhaps those issues will not be smothered. *But this has been said already.
Cheers
Nkosi