Also from AMROBA this from their latest news letter,
VOL 10 Issue 11
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Back in Business — New Government
Warren Truss has fulfilled one of the promises in the Government’s Aviation Policy Paper by announcing a Review Team to look at just about all aspects of aviation including government departments and agencies.
Lowering costs and red tape is the key to the government’s aviation policy — this is easy to achieve in aviation. It was also the basis of regulatory
reform for the last 20 plus years but has been such an abject failure up till now.
This government has turned the spotlight onto the government departments and agencies involved with the aviation industry.
One cannot imagine support for this Review coming from his own Department let alone CASA or the ATSB.
Mike Mrdyck, Secretary of the Department of Infrastructure; Mike Dolan, ATSB; Allan Hawke, Chair of CASA Board; John McCormick, CEO of CASA and CASA’s Senior Executive would have been against such a review.
The terms of reference for the review clearly demonstrates that this government does not have confidence in the current direction of aviation reform by those persons listed above.
AMROBA membership supports the all encompassing review and hope they have enough time to properly analyse the aviation system properly.
We appreciated the LNP policy stating that:
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Labor’s approach to aviation policy over the past six years has seen cost after cost added to the bottom lines of airlines and airports, pilots and passengers.
Together, these measures have made the Australian industry increasingly uncompetitive internationally and have seen many smaller aviation providers struggle to survive.
Government imposed red tape is beginning to overwhelm many smaller and medium-sized businesses which struggle to cope with changing,
complicated and confusing requirements.”
To achieve this massive change, they also recognised that they needed to:
reform the structure of the Civil Aviation Safety
Authority;
revitalise the General Aviation Action Agenda;
enhance aviation skills, training and development.
AMROBA will lobby for:
A more responsive CASA structure that holds a senior individual responsible for standards, regulatory services and oversight for discrete
industry sectors must be an outcome.
A 3 tier legislative system where ICAO standards & practices are promulgated by CASA as ‘aviation safety standards’ referred to in
CASRs must also be an outcome.
A FAR based system for the non-airline sectors must be another outcome.
It would appear the IOS membership is swelling...
