So... who is the minister for Transport?
 

Given that Barnaby is currently somewhat distracted, can someone please tell me who in the Government is presiding over the destruction of the General Aviation industry? :confused:

The same people as for ever......CAsA

CC

Surely you’re not silly enough to believe that the talking head who happens to be called “Minister” has any effect on the regulation of aviation safety, HL?

There’s probably a net benefit for GA if the “Minister” is distracted by more important matters arising from the consequences of the apeture into which an appendage was inserted.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could all get paid leave for the terrible stress caused by inserting an appendage into the wrong apeture.

What would Dick Smith say ?
 

It's another " Kick in the Guts " for the Aviation Community Leafblower = thats the answer !

What about the Gravy train that's followed...

Sad news for average Australian Families with Christian Values to boot.

How do parents explain this kind of behavior " ESPECIALLY THE DEPUTY PM " to their kids ? ? ?

WELL DONE WOMBAT > JUST RESIGN & GET LOST...

GGAARRRRRDDDDD

The Wesminster System and personal responsibility
 

Whatever happened to personal accountability (and honour) in our treasured political system? Time for Barney to resign and bring in a better person! Read this if you have time.
https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliam...1&fullscreen=1

The relevant paragraphs that matter -

Plus the rest of it, This is why, purportedly, they have the title "Honourable"!!

Nothing honourable about any of the (expletives deleted) members!:mad:

Cynical; Who..me??:*

Well at least you can't depart him to NZ as he relinquished his citizenship!

Barnaby
 

If any anyone other than a politician had an extramarital affair would it really be the kiss of death to a career?

Marriages these days are generally not treated with the same respect that they were several generations ago.

Should Barnaby be sacked for a younger woman getting him into the sack?

I don't think so. He was always a highly respected hard working guy in Central NSW and I don't think he deserves the flack he is getting now.

It makes you wonder who they are going to replace him with or, who is
going to make the headlines next after using 50 Shades of Gray as a training manual.

Can anyone tell us what kind of job he has been doing as the Minister of Transport with respect to Aviation?

I'm completely out of that loop.

Ramjet

He only took on the mantle of Minister for Transport and Infrastructure once the By-election was over in early December.
Christmas - he was acting PM while Malcolm was on holidays.
January - he was on holidays while all this palaver brewed up.
February - he's been preoccupied.
....but if it's any help, his office was still looking for an Aviation policy advisor in late January.

I'd suggest he's been doing a really crap job of everything except saving his own neck :mad:

Barnaby could not understand section 44 of the constitution, It seems self-explanatory to me.

Then, when he was found to be a New Zealand citizen as well as Australian, be still refused to even stand down and insisted on using every last tax payer funded resource to hold on to his position including about $3 million for his and the other 6 high court costs.

Evidence suggests that several "expenses" have been incurred and funded by the tax payer to foster Barnaby's affair.

Questionable job placements and job creations are linked to Barnaby for his mistress/partner.

Barnaby gets free rent from an influential business man, that he has previously spent $5,000 of tax payer funded for food and drink at hotel.

I think it is clear where Barnaby's priorities are in relation to aviation and that is free business class travel for him and his partner & frequent flyer points.

I thought John Anderson was Minister for Transport?

Comfort yourselves with the knowledge that while the pollies are distracted to citizenship controversies and office affairs, they aren’t meddling with things the don’t understand. Like government.

Ramjet,

What Joyce has done is completely disregard his responsibility as Leader of the Nationals, his responsibility as Deputy Prime Minister, his responsibility to the Coalition, his responsibility to his wife and children, his responsibility to his new partner, his responsibility to his electorate, and his responsibility to Coalition voters in general.

He doesn't deserve the slightest sympathy at all as far as I'm concerned, and should just piss off RFN. :*

Look at Bill Clinton. Denied it, then admitted it and apologised and the world moved on and forgot. I guess one has to be the president of the USA to get away with extra marrital affairs.

LB,
That is cold comfort in the aviation sector, given the "demonstrated competence" of CASA, as the guardians of something called air safety, and Airservices, whose "well regarded abilities" will be the subject (along with CASA) at the next Senate Estimates.

As for Barnaby, the hyperventilating has been quite extraordinary, and apart from the "usual suspects" (opinion makers/Balmain basket weavers/chardonnay socialists/watermellons/Greens/warmists catastophists/ABC "experts"/ratbag of choice) all with addresses within 10km. of a GPO, and to whom a cowpat is a friendly gesture, the political opportunism dressed up a moralising has been quite something. Except from Tony Burke, I wonder why??

Something I should point out: It was the Nationals that kept the Government in at the last Federal election, and it will be the National/QLD LNP that will determine the outcome of the next Federal election.

So, if you think a Bill Shorten/CFMEU government is the answer to aviation's survival prayers, with a traditional inner city lefty as the Minister, cheer on the present nonsense.

But, if you are out in "the bush", among real people, not inner city hipsters, the people where the price of a a smashed avo. on toast is not an existential issue, the attitude is very different.

Tootle pip!!

doesn’t live within 10 k’s of a GPO and he’s the Beetrooter’s harshest critic:hmm:

I can tell you LeadSled, here in Barnaby's electorate the Peasants are revolting. The disgust at the shallow cynical policies and the pork-barrelling and the cover-ups is palpable.

...and some are even pissed off about the infidelity.

It's pretty rich, you pretending to be the voice of the Country people from Glenalmond Close in Gordon.

We al agree that an ALP government would be worse for General Aviation in Australia, but I honestly wonder by how much.

....in the words of the King [read Barna-bye-bye] in the Wizard of Id after Rodney told him "Sire, the peasants are revolting"...the King replied "I know they've always been revolting!"

And 'it' isn't over- yet..... more enroute (for want of a term), Apparently.

Rgds
S28- BE