Miniscule's head on a platter!
Kharon:
Truss has been horribly exposed by the response to Pel Air. Perhaps, with the right information and the moral high ground Albo could attack Truss in the parliament, there's plenty of ammunition. Remember no one has, as yet, heard his response. Cleverly played, this recent Truss exhibition could create havoc for Abbott, particularly when the Oh so predictable WLR is published. Truss is on bloody thin political ice anyway and Barnaby is enticing him further out into the centre. Quite a coup if Albo could do a Lazarus. Come back from the dead on matters aeronautical; rattle the Shorten cage and force Abbott to dump Truss.
Interesting concept “K” especially when you consider that Albo in parliament just last week had this to say on the subject of the ATsB...
“…However, there is a role for an opposition to raise concerns about the direction of some government policy, and earlier this month there were reports that the government was considering staff cuts of up to 20 per cent in the Australian Transport Safety Bureau. The ATSB employs 110 people. They investigate accidents, safety concerns and near misses in air, sea and rail transport.
These cuts should not be considered by government. There is a need to quarantine ATSB...
...Their task is simply too important to cut corners by cutting costs and cutting staff, and I would hope that the government maintains at least the support that is there for these agencies…
….I would urge the minister for transport, who is also the Deputy Prime Minister, to make sure that these agencies are not subject to budget cuts…
…when it comes to the potential for cuts in this area, there is a very simple, old-fashioned saying: it is better to be safe than sorry. And when considering the aviation sector, you cannot afford to be in the situation whereby you look back with regret at decisions made that may have been short-sighted. So I am confident that the government will reject the suggestion of making cuts to the agency's staff….”
Albo also infamously stated at the opening of Fort Fumble’s new Brisvegas office in 2008…
“..And, nothing, I repeat nothing, is as important in aviation as safety. Safety must underpin everything the industry does…”
So interesting concept “K”, however there are some rather large credibility issues on the subject of Albo's (as the former miniscule) past statements on aviation safety being sacrosanct. One example HERE..
Not to mention that he was miniscule responsible for hiring bean counter Beaker in the first place…
One thing the MH370 tragedy has highlighted is that there is no place in aviation safety for political obfuscation and playing the ‘blame game’, too many lives can be affected now and into the future for authorities to be either complacent or non-transparent in their delegated actions in the aftermath of aircraft accidents.
For Truss to effectively condone the actions of Beaker and Skull in the PelAir attempted cover up, while thumbing his nose at the Senators, has done further damage to our already tarnished aviation safety record. His inaction on recommendation 1 alone supports the argument that the ATsB should no longer be funded or overseen by his department.
As Albo states above, the ATsB’s role is far too important to be governed by budgetary constraints. Regardless that everyone survived the Norfolk ditching, the issue of whether to salvage VH-NGA’s black box should never, ever have been subject to such constraints…
..FFS!
IMHO for the ATsB to be a truly effective independent statutory authority it needs to be modelled on the NTSB or TSBC and be directly reportable/funded by the Parliament (& far from the thieving, politically inspired hands of miniscules & bureaucrat mandarins).
Otherwise, from what we’ve all observed with PelAir, why have the ATsB??
And miniscule your head should be on a platter for even contemplating putting out such a ****e Govt response…TICK TOCK!
Last edited by Sarcs; 25th Mar 2014 at 03:18.