Leafblower:
Who wants to run on an Aviaiton Reg Reform ticket at the Feral election?
If Ricky Muir can get in, surely an Aviation person could get in?!?
Mr. Leafblower, you don't have to run an aviation candidate to exert political power.
It is much cheaper to run a negative campaign against sitting members of the Government in marginal seats.
I assure you that will get politicians attention.
There is only one thing in the known universe that bureaucrats are powerless against: A Government or politician afraid that they might not get re-elected!
I cannot properly convey the fear that infects a bureaucrat when they discover that a Minister is on the warpath! Get a Minister enraged over CASA behaviour and everything can suddenly be done to placate the industry, no change is too big! Watch how fast CASA is dismantled!
The list is here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-e...election,_2013
Take Barton. The sitting Lib member got 50.31 percent of the vote on a Two party preferred basis. There was less than a thousand votes in it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_of_Barton
There were less than a thousand votes in it.
Total votes 90,000.
Now what you do is print some literature in the next campaign - sitting member Nickolas Varvaris.
You say words to the effect that "your kids want jobs in airlines or want to fly planes when they grow up? If yes, then don't vote for Nick Varvaris!" (Nothing personal against Mr. Varvaris)
Since the margin was less than a Thousand votes, if your letter dropping campaign in Barton convinces just One percent of the electorate not to vote for Varvaris then he is gone.
There are some Twenty Eight Lib/LNP marginal seats where the margin is less than Ten percent.
P.S. Want bipartisan support for reforming CASA? Target the Thirty something Labor marginals as well. Your message is exactly the same; "want you kid to have a job as a pilot? If yes, then don't vote for buggalugs."
This is the only way, absent a Royal Commission into a catastrophic accident, that you will get meaningful change, and if it is the Royal Commission route CASA can probably withstand their findings, after all look what they did to neuter the Forsyth review recommendations..