Wally Mk 2,
You have missed the salient critical point, this is Australia, we know best.
What would the rest of the world know, particularly the USA.
Think parochial, think small, under no circumstance let common sense ( very uncommon in Australian aviation) intrude, and wear rose coloured glasses when you look at Australia's incident and accident record, and above all, bureaucracy rains (no, not a misspelling) supreme.
I can't decipher the CASA-speak and I'm hearing different things from different people (incl ATOs...)
Joseph,
You missed out FOIs, this is the difference between "The Rule of Law" and the "Rule by Law", where the latter means that the law is what some bureaucrat says it means, on any particular day, and you do not have the finances to challenge bureaucratic "rulings" via appeal systems that are heavily stacked against you.
Tootle pip!!