There have been three important ATSB reports published lately; the slightly hysterical Tiger go-around at Avalon; the secretive Meat bombs v Virgin; and, the Mildura Met Muddle. Each, in it's own way significant. Once you have read and inwardly digested, just for fun, isolate the individual issues into short sentences and see what sort of picture you get and it ain't pretty. Then, if you can stomach it, line up the considered responses aimed at preventing a reoccurrence of any one of the three potentially serious incidents and time line it from start to finish. The question 'have we done enough to minimise the risks?' is nugatory. 'Have we done anything positive in a timely manner at all?, has the ascendancy: the answer being a resounding NO.
The emerging picture reminds me of the Dorian Gray story, written by Oscar Wilde.
Wiki - Realizing that one day his beauty will fade, Dorian (whimsically) expresses a desire to sell his soul to ensure the portrait Basil has painted would age rather than he. Dorian's wish is fulfilled, and when he subsequently pursues a life of debauchery, the portrait serves as a reminder of the effect each act has upon his soul, with each sin displayed as a disfigurement of his form, or through a sign of aging.
“Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?”. Oscar Wilde.
Today's MG Word - Aphorism. [The] term was later applied to maxims of physical science, then statements of all kinds of philosophical, moral, or literary principles. In modern usage an aphorism is generally understood to be a concise statement containing a subjective truth or observation cleverly and pithily written.