CASA approves the decommissioning of the navaids in the move to a GPS based navigation airways system but requires NDB/VOR for IR issue. There is one........yes one VOR in the Melbourne basin for VOR approaches.
Like it or not the majority of IR schools are based at Moorabbin. ASA, chronically short staffed (they were warned about this 10 years ago) in an effort to protect their controllers implemented a (ludicrous) booking system for AV, MB & EN. You've now got about 8 schools all trying to use the AV VOR every day. It is now a logistical nightmare trying to complete an instrument nav. Both of these organisations are directly increasing the cost of IR training. Could the management of these backward organisations give a rats arse. They both know that losing GA wouldn't affect their bottom line and that's what it's all about right?