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Thursday, 17th June 2010

Abbott & Truss Continue To Play Politics With Aviation Safety

The legislation introduced by the Rudd Labor Government and opposed by the Federal Coalition – Excise Tariff Amendment (Aviation Fuel) Bill 2010 – would give effect to the decision taken in this year’s Budget to increase to the aviation fuel excise from $0.02854 to $0.03556 per litre.


Importantly, every single cent of the extra revenue raised would go to the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA), delivering a 30 per cent increase over four years to its annual budget.


CASA will use this extra funding to:



  • Employ 97 additional safety specialists, safety analysts and airworthiness inspectors and other staff, allowing the organisation to expand its surveillance activities and fulfil its increasingly complex regulatory responsibilities.

  • Provide expanded and ongoing training to its staff.

  • Make permanent random alcohol and drug testing as well as a number of other programs which until now had been funded on a temporary or ad hoc basis.

  • Make sure the Office of Airspace Regulation continues to have the resources to properly regulate and administer Australia’s airspace, an area covering almost 11 per cent of the earth’s surface.


The Government’s actions were also a response to the International Civil Aviation Organisation’s 2008 audit of Australia’s aviation safety system which identified room improvement, including the need for CASA to increase its technical staff and provide greater technical training.


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