Lead Balloon #42
The paradox is that a person capable of doing the DAS job correctly can never be chosen.
A person capable of doing the job correctly would realise that CASA is not competent to run, and has a conflict of interest in running, the regulatory reform program. That person would insist that the Minister and the Department did their job.
Given that the Minister and the Department decide who the DAS will be, they are always going to choose someone who's silly enough to pretend, or is so naive as to believe, that s/he is in control of, and therefore responsible for, something that CASA is not competent to do and cannot do.
These astute observations, plus what follows in the post, are deserving of the closest 'study and digest'. In this entire thread, thus far, there is sufficient cool-headed logic, based sometimes on bitter experience, to warrant categorising as 'expert feedback'. How this resource can be employed to the benefit of the regulator and the sectors that are overseen, and those employed therein, might take the wisdom of Solomon. (and that's not Solomon Grundy.)