Now let me think, who was it that created the regulation-reform monster all those years ago?
Bloggsie,
As it all started in the modern era with the "Lane" report in the mid-1980, is this to which you refer? If so, blame "Dusty" Lane, Ansett DFO.
Or perhaps you are referring to the recommendations of Minister for Aviation Schwartz, in his report to Parliament on the Air Navigation Act, in 1966, recommending we adopt FAA style regulations?
Or the Darling Report (Labor's Elaine Darling, MHR) HORSCTs report into Sports Aviation?
Or perhaps the results of the "Seaview" and "Monarch" reports/ Royal Commissions and the Morris Inquiry that then Opposition Spokesman John Sharp, and then Opposition Shadow Minister for Transport, Senator Warwick Parer, put together as the Liberal/National aviation policy, "Soaring Into Tomorrow", in 1996.
It is true that AOPA (along with all the other alphabet soup aviation associations that were not unions) supported "Soaring Into Tomorrow", and John Sharp's CASA Review, 1996-1998 was the substantive result.
Tootle pip!!