CASA and initiative = oxymoron.
The sad thing is that CASA's predecessors used to have initiative, used to lead the world and used to support aviation. Its all gone bad in the last 30 - 40 years. I don't understand why or how it happened, but undeniably it has. The DCA wasn't this bad. I suspect it happened when it centralised to Canberra and the department changed from people with an interest in aviation to people with an interest in the public service.