Half throttle for reform and DAS makeover continues!
Bought the Oz newspaper this morning…sat down and flipped to the legal affairs/aviation/sports section…lo and behold it wasn’t there??
Flip..flip..flip.. finally it was in the main section of the paper…sign of the times perhaps??
However once discovered I was immediately glad I hadn’t had my breakfast cause there was the DAS beaming out at me…hmm it would appear the ‘extreme makeover’ continues…
Most of the article was a total rehash of what he has been prattling on about in recent times and all the delays to reg reform can mostly be blamed on the minority group the IOS…go figure? I did like this bit however:
Longstanding criticism about the number of years it has taken to rewrite the rules has been accompanied by complaints from pilots and some industry groups about a lack of consultation and claims by smaller players the organisation was belligerent and intimidating.
Groups involved in the Australian Aviation Associations Forum have called for a restructuring of CASA under which its regulatory reform functions would be hived off and taken into the Department of Infrastructure and Transport. The AAAF also wanted more representation on the CASA board and more industry-friendly policies from government.
More recently a Senate committee report criticised CASA for failing to hand on to safety investigators details of problems it had found during an audit of Pel Air and expressed concerns about the number of people wanting to give evidence in camera because of fear of retribution.
Which he totally ignored in his usual sociopath fashion
(a leopard can't change its spots!)….hmm however there was a more interesting article much smaller but with a far more relevant message to this thread
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Safety compromised by cuts in the budget
THE Australian Transport Safety Bureau, already the subject of criticism over its handling of a delayed accident report, is under pressure to cut more staff because of government budget cuts.
ATSB chief commissioner Martin Dolan told a Senate estimates committee on Wednesday that cuts to the bureau's budget would mean it would have to reduce staff across time. "That means that we have to be very focused on what matters we choose to investigate in the future, conscious of the risk of missing something important to safety, and in some cases we may need to constrain the investigation because of the call on our resources," Mr Dolan said.
The ATSB's total annual appropriation is expected to drop to $19.82 million in 2013-14 from $21.76m this financial year.
Mr Dolan said the reduced budget was a result of "whole-of-government cuts" that had been applied proportionately to the ATSB without consultation.
The organisation had not been asked to outline the consequences of the move, he said in answer to a question by David Fawcett.
Senator Fawcett accused the government of a serious dereliction of duty given Transport Minister Anthony Albanese's 2008 comments that nothing was as important as aviation safety. He said last week's Senate report into the 2009 Pel-Air ditching of an air ambulance off Norfolk Island highlighted the unintended consequences of cutting funds to a safety agency.
Opposition transport spokesman Warren Truss called on the government for a quick response to the Senate committee investigation, describing it as "disturbing reading" that raised serious issues of process.
The federal government has declared it has full confidence in Australia's aviation safety agencies, despite the damning report. The report issued 26 recommendations and raised concerns about the way the ATSB handled its investigation as well as the failure of the Civil Aviation Safety Authority to give information to the bureau.
It identified problems with investigative and regulatory procedures, funding and reporting, and called for the investigation to be reopened, warning some deficiencies could breach Australian law and our international obligations.
Mr Truss called on Mr Albanese to "restore public confidence in our accident investigatory bodies and deal with the concerns raised in the inquiry as a matter of urgency".
"People have every right to expect world's best practice when it comes to aviation safety, which includes comprehensive investigation and reporting of incidents. The community is entitled to have confidence in our aviation safety regulations."
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/aviation/safety-compromised-by-cuts-in-the-budget/story-e6frg95x-1226654026918
Oh well doin a Kelpie and cutting out photos for the 'IOS' club dart board!
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