It was the election promise that not everyone wanted.
The Australian Labor Party made a new aviation white paper a part of its platform for the 2022 election, but for many advocates in Australia’s aviation community it simply brought back the trauma of the last white paper published in 2009.
That document is held in the highest esteem by the current ALP government, but the aviation community still derides it as one of the worst papers on aviation ever published. For some, it amounted to nothing more than a statement of