Airservices reduces costs to improve profits while they force GA costs up

[Dick Smith]

That was the original proposal.

When AsA could not remove the Secondary Servailence Radars they then could not get the cost savings that were required to pay for the ADSB subsidy.

So the subsidy disappeared but the mandate remained.

It's little more than sheer bastardry as there is no existing mid air collision safety problem with small aircraft that fly in cloud.