Replace them with an Aviation Department under an Aviation specific Director, as the head whip-cracker with the ability to hire and fire.
NOT an aviation ignorant "minister" protected by aviation know-nothing advisors/spin merchants and BS artists.
Have a mission statement to Foster and Promote Safety AND the Aviation Industry, to benefit the Nation and the common wealth.
Get rid of all this strict liability, criminal penalty bs for minor infractions.
Investigations into serious breaches to be undertaken by an independent body AFP, unallied to the regulator. Review panel for the nit picking 'chicken ****' stuff that some CAsA people thrive on.
CAsA cannot be trusted not to protect their own. And remember CAsA can turn a bee poo into a Mt Everest, no expense spared.
As in Canada, allow PVT pilots with Pvt aircraft to do most of/all of their own maintenance. RAA SAAA folk do that anyway and many a/c with numbers on them used to be VH...so what is the problem.? [the van and the white clad folk will be here in the morning !]
16 Furzer St , Fairyland. Cantberra is a giant trough in which the taxpayer-tit sucking time servers have welded themselves a place based on being able to smother ignorant politicians and ministers with the mystique of "safetY" and the fear of falling aeroplanes. And its worked wonderfully well. For them.
There has to be another way.
Fly safe ...and stay well clear of kindergartens.