It was Keating's lot who decided to flog off leases to run the airports. It was Howard's lot who awarded those leases to property developers interested only in land banks close to capital cities. So both sides of politics are to blame and the obvious outcome, GA being gouged to within an inch of its life, was inevitable.
We have Sussan Ley who was a CPL and ATC and is now ... Minister for Sport. She would be ideal to be put in a position of influence for aviation but seeing as they haven't stuck to a single word of their pre-election aviation policy, don't expect anything from this government.
The tilt up concrete monstrosities and traffic jams at Jandakot get worse every day and are a testament to the greed of the developers and Peter Garrett's approval for them to bulldoze hundreds of hectares of pristine bush.
