Check the facts
Before taking a swipe at the ATSB, I suggest contributors and coroners check the legislation under which it works. Essentially it does a safety investigation only. It does NOT apportion blame. The Director can choose NOT to investigate if he or she so decides. If the ATSB finds, or if there is a suggestion that an accident, was due pilot culpibility and there is no safety benefit from the investigation, it will drop the investigation or simply not investigate...that is CASA's job in that instance and it is up to CASA to investigate if so chooses.
In the past, BASI investigated every accident. Goverment has chosen to cut funding to the agency and so the ATSB has had to choose which accidents/incidents it investigates due to financial/resource limitations. That choice is often made on the initial report. Coroners have taken to giving the ATSB a hard time about investigations because they had come to rely on the ATSB (BASI ) to do their job for them. The sooner Coroners and the like realise that the ATSB does not work for them, and that they have a responsibility to conduct their own thorough investigations, the better it will be for all.
So here, it seems, we have a classic busting of rules, and limits, and an extremely poor display of airmanship (read common sense). The ATSB chose not to investigate. That is it, close the book. So what do we learn from this accident? Being a cowboy eventually catches up with you? Follow the rules? Wow, no new lesson in that one!