Minister Truss to address Press Club on 30th April

[Up-into-the-air]

Mr. Truss has an appointment with the press club in Canberra on Wednesday at 12..30 PM. These are normally broadcast on ABC-24.

The following is from the Press Club site:

Speakers

The Hon Warren Truss MP

http://www.npc.org.au/assets/images/speakers/2014%20Speaker%20Photos/Warren%20Truss.jpgDeputy Prime Minister

April 30, 2014

Arrive from 11.30am, lunch 12 noon, speaker 12.30 concludes 1.30pm

'Address to the National Press Club'


The Hon. Warren Truss MP is Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and the Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development.

He became Leader of the Nationals in 2007 and is the longest serving federal leader of any political party in Australia today.

A third generation farmer from the Kumbia district near Kingaroy in Queensland, Mr Truss first won the federal seat of Wide Bay in 1990.
He was a Minister in the Howard Government for 10 years, serving as Minister for Customs and Consumer Affairs in October 1997, and a year later, Minister for Community Services. In July 1999 Mr Truss became the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, where he served for six years. He became Minister for Transport and Regional Services in July 2005 and, in September 2006, was appointed Minister for Trade.

Before entering Parliament, Mr Truss was a Kingaroy Shire Councillor (1976 to 1990), including seven years as Mayor. He was Deputy Chairman of the Queensland Grain Handling Authority and a member of the State Council of the Queensland Graingrowers Association for more than 10 years.
Mr Truss is also former State and National President of the Rural Youth Organisation and President of the Lutheran Youth of Queensland.

At the 2013 federal election, Mr Truss led The Nationals to the Party’s best electoral result in 30 years.
The press Club invites questions from the "great unwashed" or IOS if you wish.

The access is through:

Speakers | National Press Club (http://www.npc.org.au/upcomingspeakers.html)

Join the throng!!

[Cactusjack]

Get the press club to ask him;
A) When will he get his teeth fixed,
B) When will he get his skin fixed,
C) When will he honour some of his aviation promises,
D) When will he get rid of Beaker, MrDak and other select executive managers of the ATSB and CASA, and restructure both organisations and finally address our decades old safety decline because at the current rate we are going to end up with something really nasty occurring.

[Sunfish]

The Minister will not speculate on the outcome of the review, period. If there has been a preliminary report by then he will say he and his Department havn't had time to study it.

When the review is completed, the Government will say that overall CASA is going down the right track however there are areas where improvements could be made and he is advised that these will be addressed in the fullness of time.

Golf claps all round and CASA continues on its merry way and proceed to wreak its vengeance on anyone identified by the review as critical of it.



....or some junior at PM & C is told to quietly fix the mess by dismembering CASA.

If the latter does not happen, your only alternative is civil disobedience or a general strike.

[Up-into-the-air]

An hour went by and it took over 20 minutes until Truss even mentioned Badgery's Creek, but then more as a "big road" and an advantage to jobs after completion compared to roads.

Then nothing more. (http://vocasupport.com/minister-truss-and-the-press-club-address/)

[TBM-Legend]

Truss has some issues. Heads of ATSB and AMSA leaving together with his aviation policy advisor (x-labor ) plus McCormick .

[Up-into-the-air]

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Government inaction on aviation safety (http://australianaviation.com.au/2013/08/senator-highlights-government-failure-on-aviation-safety-recommendations/)
Election holds up safety action (http://proaviation.com.au/news/?p=1576)
Senate Report into Safety Regulators (http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate_Committees?url=rrat_ctte/completed_inquiries/2010-13/pel_air_2012/report/index.htm)
Crikey on Aviation Safety (http://blogs.crikey.com.au/planetalking/2013/06/21/pel-air-air-safety-issues-spelt-out-by-pilot-and-senator-david-fawcett/)
The Australian on Aviation Safety (http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/aviation/safety-regulators-lashed-over-air-crash-failings/story-e6frg95x-1226649452476)
ABC PM on Aviation Safety (http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2013/s3766068.htm)
Aviation Safety Report (http://www.senator.fawcett.net.au/ATSBReport200613.pdf)
Aviation Security (http://www.senator.fawcett.net.au/Aviation%20Security%20150812.pdf)
Airports Amendment Bill (http://www.senator.fawcett.net.au/AirportAmdtBill.pdf)

(http://www.senator.fawcett.net.au/MaidenSpeech220811.pdf)



David has written extensively about the need for reform in the relationship between the Executive of Government, Government Departments and industry in respect to both aviation and Defence. A selection of Opinion Pieces, Guest Editorials, speeches and media outlining his views on defence and aviation are listed below. The most comprehensive remarks regarding Defence are contained in the “Additional Comments” (http://www.senator.fawcett.net.au/FADT%20Additional%20Comments.pdf) to the 2012 Senate Report

[004wercras]

Truss has some issues. Heads of ATSB and AMSA leaving together with his aviation policy advisor (x-labor ) plus McCormick .
• Perhaps they were all going for an early Mardi gras fitting?
• Maybe they were heading out for a game of nude Twister? (Did anybody spot a Twister mat and 12 litres of baby oil?)
• Perhaps they were off to belt a Xenophon piñata?
• Maybe they were having private 'safety' training? 'Safety' is a word they may have never heard of before.
• Maybe their tutor, Beaker, was awaiting them and was going to give them some budget and accounting training? Gotta watch those pots of money.
• Perhaps they are secret members of The Bilderberg Group and were meeting covertly to plan their next folly?

[Jabawocky]

Once again aviation will be left to survive on its own despite the obvious. :rolleyes:

Time for a meeting with my local member :hmm:

[Ultralights]

an industry wide strike against CASA...

[Sunfish]

ultra:

an industry wide strike against CASA...

Yes, that might do it, if there is a very carefully constructed PR campaign along with it.

The general public know SFA about GA. They have an attention span of about Two minutes. There needs to be a very simple and easily understood message about what is happening, why its happening and what we want.

Its called a sound bite, and we will need quite a few of them.

Here is my modest example: "How would you like it if a policeman (insert injustice) and took away your job because of it? Well that is what aircraft pilots face every day.......