Hi Axiom
CASA Safety Promotion Branch would be more than happy to look into the possibility of holding safety seminars in Hillston, Leigh Creek, Goodooga etc as you suggested. Unfortunately, with a small team (consisting only of three pilots, one maintenance engineer, one safety management systems specialist and myself as the event coordinater), it's literally impossible to get to every location in Australia and it is unfortunate that it's the smaller country areas that tend to miss out. That said, we do vary our program each year and try to visit spread ourselves as far and wide as we can. We are also looking seriously into e-learning technologies in order to reach a larger audience (within our budget).
On the matter of only receiving four days notice of this series of sessions in Merimbula, I am surprised that you were not made aware of this earlier. I personally arranged a registration brochure mail out which was sent 6 weeks ago to all pilots within a 300km radius of Merimbula. The program has been available on the CASA website for 3 months - you may wish to view the remainder of this year's program on the CASA website
http://www.casa.gov.au/hotopics/seminars/index.htm
On that web-link you will also be able to order copies of handouts, brochures and CD-roms from our seminars. These are all available free of charge.
Please note that all flight safety forums and safety seminars (roadshows) conducted by CASA are free of charge.
If you have any further queries about CASA's safety seminars, or wish to seriously discuss safety sessions for Hillston/Leigh Creek/Goodooga please don't hesitate to contact Safety Promotion in the office on 131 757.