…..and the management of CASA will keep doing what it has always done -buggeriing Australian aviation. The new positions are what is known in the IT trade as "smoke and mirrors" - diversions to make the "stakeholders" think that something is changing. It isn't.
By the way, you and I ain't "stakeholders" that title is reserved for hand picked representatives of the various Aviation associations. If CASA runs true to form as a bureaucracy, CASA will try to "capture" the stakeholders via privileged access to the senior CASA management as well as Mrdak and the Minister and play to stakeholder representative ego. Private dinners at Parliament house, Minister attending stakeholder functions, praise of stakeholders written into Hansard, etc., etc. are the chosen tools. You need representatives with iron self control and integrity to avoid the snares CASA will lay for you.
You will know this has happened when:
1) You complain to CASA and they refer you to AOPA, SAAA, RAA, etc., and
2) CASA delivers a new sh!t sandwich of regulations and your own association - the one you pay good money to for membership, explains that the sh!t sandwich is the best they could negotiate with CASA and it could have been much worse and that really the sandwich is tasty and nourishing despite the smell.
This situation is exactly what transpires with Yachting Australia that changed from being a members mouthpiece to a Government one.