Our input into the future aviation landscape
In 2023, the Australian Government released Terms of Reference calling for submissions on the Aviation White Paper which will outline the Government's desired outcomes for aviation in terms of safety, competitiveness, sustainability, and efficiency, to ensure that the industry is suitably equipped to provide aviation services to the Australian public up to 2050.
The Terms of Reference explored various matters within the aviation sector, including four specific areas identified by the Government:
“how to maximise the aviation sector's contribution to achieving net zero carbon emissions, including through sustainable aviation fuel and emerging technologies
the economic reforms needed to improve productivity across the sector, including addressing skills shortages, competition between airports and airlines, and charting a course out of the pandemic
how to support and regenerate Australia's general aviation sector
better mechanisms for consultation on and management of issues like aircraft noise, airport development planning and changing security requirements”
Stop Flight Path Impacts (Gold Coast Lifestyle Association Inc) made a submission identifying clear deficiencies in the current regulatory framework, which doesn’t adequately provide appropriate protection of community interests. These interests for example, include:
the well overdue articulation of regulations governing the use of airspace (where currently there are none)
the requirement for public consultation on proposed changes to flight paths
the requirements for the adoption of noise abatement procedures or noise amelioration programs as conditions to proposed substantial increases in aircraft movement.
Our Terms of Reference submission can be found here.
The Terms of Reference submissions were used in the development of a Green Paper published in September 2023. The Green Paper served as the basis for more detailed consultation in which we were involved due to our membership of Gold Coast Airport’s Community Aviation Consultation Group.
We again provided a submission to the Aviation Green Paper consultation which closed in November 2023.
Visit our submission to the Green Paper of November 2023 here.
white paper released
The White Paper was released on 26 August 2024. Read the paper and its fact sheets at the following link: https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/department/media/publications/aviation-white-paper-towards-2050
*Green papers include proposals or solutions to feedback received in response to a proposed white paper. Green papers are often released to generate discussion and feedback.
*A white paper is a published statement of government policy or strategy which often includes details of, and the reasons for, planned legislative changes
