I'm in sunny Italy at the moment, but if someone can assemble some numbers from reliable sources we can start our benchmarking when I get back or sooner if you do it yourself.
Numbers: hours flown, movements cycles or flights, number of GA aircraft, regulator employees and contractors, pages of regulation, non conformances with ICAO. Accident rates, fatality rates, number of pilots, medicals, renewals, costs of regulator. For Europe, USA,,uk, nz and anyone else we can find. From that we can derive some benchmarks
Someone should look up international air traffic regulators website, confirm their benchmarking program exists, I think I found it did, get a hold of their benchmarks if available and apply them to AsA, then QON to Xenophon about why AsA isn't a member and doesn't benchmark and doesn't share those results with industry.
Hard data can then be perhaps rammed up the proverbial since benchmarks don't lie.
Enough ipad scratching, off to Perugia Tommorrow for a cooking course.