Folks,
It seems to me that AVM(Rtd.) Skidmore is reacting to the fact that AOPA has just had access to, and been heard, within PM&C. The new Minister for Infrastructure and Transport will be getting the message from "the boss".
Sadly, AVM(Rtd.) Skidmore has, in my opinion, previously made it very clear that criticism of CASA and individual officers of CASA is not acceptable to him. See his correspondence with Dick Smith, published on pprune, as one example.
Sadly, it would be reasonable to think that the underlying message of the Forsyth Report has not been accepted by the CASA DAS/CEO. We know, without shadow of a doubt, it has just bounced off the "iron ring".
CASA need wholesale "enforced cultural re-alignment", not defense of the status quo. In part, that is what "Eureka" is all about.
Tootle pip!!