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Senate Inquiry into CASA

https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Rural_and_Regional_Affairs_and_Transport/Completed_inquiries/2008-10/casa/index

Lost count of the number of inquiries into DCA, CAA and CASA!

I wonder how long before CASA claim protection under Sect 9 of the Civil Aviation Act 1988?

Dissecting a turd

Agreed. How many enquiries has it been now? Never any real outcome. The entire Australian aviation community know they are a basket case. Around $500m spent on a regulatory reform program that commenced in 1988 and is still not finished. They have been a dysfunctional utopia unto themselves since then. An organisation who thrives on bureaucracy, adding red tape, destroying individuals and businesses, wasting taxpayer money, adding rules and laws while repealing none, and the list goes on. CASA has been a loss making, economy destroying/inhibiting nightmare. Frankenstein has morphed into a beast of biblical proportions. They have cost the economy billions and will continue to do so. Save the Government our taxpayer money and do the following items as a starting point. And considering that Morrison isn’t afraid of dismantling and axing Departments and their non-performing Secretaries and bringing back former reputable bureaucrats to head up the changes, now is the perfect time to act;

Appoint an interim Director to disband and replace the Board, the DAS (Carmody), Aleck, Anastasi, Crawford and the regional managers and start a fresh. A 2 year restructuring under a temporary position - Dick Smith to head it up.
Put together a large disciplined team that will copy the NZ ruleset and implement a 3 year introduction program to bring those rules into place in Australia. Set milestones, goals and accountability.
Assign a serious budget to undertake this reform of what was formerly CASA, into its new identity.
Create an entirely new framework implemented even down to a corporate uniform which identifies them as what they are meant to be - regulators and public servants who are accountable under the public service act.
CASA needs to be a Regulator, not a facilitator. Yet it needs to understand its impacts and that its decision making processes cannot unjustly or unfairly disadvantage businesses and the economy. It cannot act as a bully, interpret laws in a manner it chooses, and it has to be held to account and under constant scrutiny and oversight at the Ministerial level.

Restructure of the Frankenstein needs to start at the top and then work it’s way all the way down to the landscapers and the cleaners. Top to bottom reform, restructure, reset.

(With the emphasis on the R in PPRUNE)
Following the amalgamation / abolishing of several central agencies last week, I have heard that the gov is actively looking at the 180 or so reg and other agencies...

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Around $500m spent on a regulatory reform program that commenced in 1988 and is still not finished.

Oh, not finished? Are you suggesting that the then DAS Mr Byron, mislead the Senate???

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Senate Hansard of the Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation Committee hearings of 14 Feb 05
Mr Byron—I anticipate we would start sending some of them from about the middle of this year. I do not see this delaying the overall program excessively. We have an action item to develop a plan to forward to the minister about when we plan to have them to the minister, and I assume that plan would be done in the next couple of months. I would be hopeful that it would not be long after early 2006 that most of the draft rules are delivered to the minister.

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Oh, not finished? Are you suggesting that the then DAS Mr Byron, mislead the Senate???

Silly me! Not just Byron. Also The Screaming Skull, Skidmark, Hood, all of them have said something in the Senate about a completion date.......

In 1992, four years after the regulatory re-write began, Leroy Keith told me the project would be finished within a year or so.

That was 27 years and numerous DAS ago and the job is still not done.

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I wonder how long before CASA claim protection under Sect 9 of the Civil Aviation Act 1988?

It is long overdue to have adopted a single set of Regulations only. Where else in the big wide world would you find a Regulator concurrently using CAR 1988, and CASR 1998.
No wonder the last 31 years have slipped by and the problems have increased proportionately. Too easy to get their act together.
No reason to give up the good fight though.
Ya all hang in there now. Big E.

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In 1992, four years after the regulatory re-write began, Leroy Keith told me the project would be finished within a year or so.

That was 27 years and numerous DAS ago and the job is still not done.

Torres, are you expecting a call to make these points in the Senate Inquiry?

In todays paper CASA staff are playing the safety card after CASA have failed to make budget. Threat of accident because they don't have enough funding. Problem is that noone in government actually knows enough to make a call on what is actually a safety issue and what isn't. So inevitably governments just cave in and give them the money thinking they are buying public safety.

The trough has run dry?

if they are $3.4m in the red, you could start by slashing the level of Executives including Carmody who is on $600k per year. Cut the amount of useless seat warming Board Directors and take away the money that Aleck spends on pointless, useless, unnecessary legal fights against the innocent and/or minor players. They literally spend tens of millions each year.

And incidentally, they are down on Inspector levels. Interesting. And how many tragedies have occurred as a result? Yep. Industry generally looks after itself thank you very much, there are enough aviation professionals including CEO’s and Directors out there who understand their accountabilities and what will happen if an employee gets killed, without needing CASA and it’s outdated rules, regulations and Pensioner Inspectors telling you what to do. Cut the organisation further I say! It’s all Chicken****.

CASA Spreading regulatory reform in the U.S,?
https://worldnewsdailyreport.com/

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Torres, are you expecting a call to make these points in the Senate Inquiry?

It would not surprise me one little bit if Torres is not already working on a submission.

I do wonder though if Dick Smith will do so.:hmm: I should imagine that he will at least consider it, and would encourage him (and a few others who frequent this site) to do so!

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One CASA inspector, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not permitted to talk about the organisation publicly, said the staff shortage was forcing inspectors to cut corners and adopt “box ticking” approach to safety checks.

Holy ****!! Are you saying that the legislation is so onerous that you have trouble finding time to get all of your paperwork done??

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“We’ve got a huge number of people in CASA who have zero faith in management"

Join the club, it has a lot of members, although, if I were you I'd keep my profession a secret.

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"and genuinely believe that we’re setting ourselves up for a catastrophic event,” he said.

You'll be right mate, just throw 20 QC's at it. It's not your money.

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It would not surprise me one little bit if Torres is not already working on a submission.

Well, he does have plenty of time! ;-)