Dehav. I pretty well agree with what you are saying however there is tremendous potential for Australia to become a world leader in flight training and recreational aviation. By that I mean bringing people from overseas to spend their money here. Tens if not hundreds of millions of export equivalent money could be earned and retained in Australia .
For that you need a plan. The Coalition aviation policy for the election before last had this policy ( I was involved in writing it) however it was removed from the policy before the last election. Very strange!
Also if we copied the best from around the world- that is the lowest cost way of ensuring the required levels of safety- we would get a lift again in GA.
But no hope at the moment as there is not one person in CASA or AsA that pushes the fact that costs have to be reduced. In fact just the opposite as new ADSB mandates come in