You have to go, otherwise you will be at risk of being labelled as someone "who'll never be happy no matter what CASA does", thus justifying whatever CASA does to you. It is quite Orwellian: If you don't go and listen and participate and nod and smile and take it all seriously, you are labelled as part of the problem. It is neither here nor there that decades of CASA's empty rhetoric about the regulatory reform program and evidence-based and risk-based regulation would lead any rational person to ignore more of it.
And before AOTW jumps in and asks how else is anyone going to clean up the mess, the first step is for the CASA DAS to publicly acknowledge that the regulatory reform program is an abject failure and that CASA is not, and never will be, competent to clean up the mess. However, in the Orwellian world of facade government, we're expected to nod and smile as we're told for the thousandth time that it's all going to be cleaned up and fine ... this time by the year 2030. (Gosh - doesn't time fly? Remember when they said it was all going to be cleaned up and fine by the year 2005?)