Spurious curfew arguments
The curfew is in place under normal conditions. It prevents discretionary out of hours movements. Once the situation becomes non-discretionary and there are no viable alternatives there ought to be automatic exemption. Even paying the fine for breaking curfew would probably have cost less than what Qantas ended up paying to bus pax into Canberra, put them up at hotels, service the a/c, get new crew, etc.
Somewhere in this over regulated world of ours there needs to be some common sense and intelligent decision making. I'd like to see the Dept of Transport explain why curfew exemption was not granted given the circumstances, and I'd like to see the terms of the exemption request to make sure the situation was clearly explained. Someone made a wrong call and I don't see why we can't have the accountability and transparency to see who and why. If someone is not prepared to have their decision subject to public scrutiny their authority to make the decision should be removed.
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Philip
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