"The minister wants to respond urgently to the report" is meaningless. What you think it means is that the Minister is going to require meaningful change of ATSB and CASA.
I believe nothing of the sort will be required.
The next Minister for Aviation will be encouraged to "buy in" to cosmetic reorganisation of both organisations, and after doing so is effectively "captured" - after all, he bought in didn't he? He can thus no longer take an axe to either organisation without being exposed to criticism.
Fawcett , nor anyone else with an understanding of aviation and its problems will be kept at arms length from CASA by the Abbott government because they might (horror) actually try to do something !
You will get a know nothing Minister who will be putty in the Departments hands, it's safer that way.
To put that another way, it is politically safer not "safer" as in aviation safety.
Last edited by Sunfish; 29th May 2013 at 23:01.