I'm not going into any more detail, because when I do, I get in strife.
Maybe Dick might like to fill in the gaps, he has deeper pockets than me...
Why should 'deeper pockets' matter, Leady, if your argument is credible? You are entitled to your view as I am to mine. This would be a damned boring forum if we all agreed!
But, please, get the facts straight in respect of 2b:
Too right it was industrial (not involving ATC) ---- the circumstances of CASA pulling the plug, one the eve of the system going "permanent".
CASA did not pull 2b; that was AsA after the Launy incident. AsA instituted 'Rollback,' not CASA. 'Rollback' was predicated on safety concerns, not the threat of 'industrial action.'
As regards CASA/CAA 'pulling' anything, that was the G Airspace Trial when Mick Toller (good bloke, IMHO) cancelled the 'trial' when Dick was in NZ.
As you rightly pointed out previously, Mick was the guy that accused us of having that 'Galapagos system.' He was a rational, experienced operator. I don't presume to read what was in his mind at the time, but maybe his unilateral (gutsy) decision came from a conviction that the proposed G Airspace regime was worse than 'Galapagos!'