from this arvo's CASA press release -
Mr Skidmore will continue in the role until October so as to allow for a smooth leadership transition.
The Board is considering interim acting arrangements which will be announced shortly. A thorough domestic and international recruitment process to select a new CEO will now commence. This process is expected to take six to nine months.
If they are to recruit new blood from overseas it had better be someone from New Zealand or the USA, if that someone has runs on the board in the CAA or the FAA , respectively, in administering major restructuring of the regulator where the contender worked, or at least a significant hand in seeing rational, fair and ethical application of the rules, and a code of honour, not drawn up in tortuous language, to be made standard for all employees of the Authority. (Maybe applicants should have to show knowledge of the workings of the Department of Civil Aviation when headed by the late Sir Donald George Anderson, and an awareness of the mine of critical information accessible within the Pacific: General Aviation , and the Australia/New Zealand & the Pacific forums on PPRuNe.)