from thorn-bird the other day on the subject of Australian aviation companies being sold to major SE Asian and Chinese concerns through sales of these companies unable to compete against such mega-corporations and hence ripe for the picking. His attack on CAsA is particularly relevant and may give incidentally an insight into why Avmed is so sick and remedies are not about to be prescribed.
The PM and the opposition make mother goose statements of supporting jobs, encouraging innovation and enterprise on one hand, then completely ignore the efforts of their bureaucrats to smother them.
It is inconceivable to me that AVM Skidmore can, with a straight face, say the industry is in good shape.
To me he is either very naive, if he does actually believe that. A complete incompetent, if he accepts the overwhelming evidence is true and has no vision to fix it, or an arrant coward, if he's not prepared to face down his mis-management team and institute real reform.
We should be asking our politicians why it is that comparable countries to Australia have vibrant aviation Industries?
Mark Skidmore is so snowed under he could not care a fig or otherwise have the time and energies to institute the reforms that Avmed obviously so badly need to make it an efficient arm of the bureaucracy serving its clientele responsibly. Many many moons have passed since 'the public service' in Canberra took a quiet pride in generally speaking providing sound advice and delivering positive results across a broad swathe of departments.