AE – Glad you caught that; Hope and Truss in the one sentence, not certain whether it makes one cry from laughing, or laugh from crying. Truss fluffed it in 2008 and with the speed of a well trained racing tortoise is slipping away from his responsibilities in 2014. Given time and assistance the entire 37 WLR recommendations could end up diluted, deferred and dismissed with his tacit blessing; the sappers will be at work as we speak. The reliance on the new board and DAS to take on the 'status quo' could easily be subverted. Can the AAT fiasco be fixed? If Truss only ever did one useful thing before going completely ga ga, it should be removing double jeopardy from the equation; that would be enough. Quadrio is classic – CDPP said no case to answer; no problem says the boys from Sleepy Hollow; we'll do him in the AAT, and they did. It's a ridiculous situation.
LS - I can think that I can say, with great confidence, that in order of importance, aviation is not on his top 10 "to do" list, indeed, about the only aviation matter of interest to the Government is: "Would it have any effect on re-election of the Government if Qantas went broke or real control was sold off".
Crumbs, if 'industry' is low priority, where does that leave attending to the 'daily' details, like administrative embuggerance; aided and abetted through the AAT system.
Toot toot...