Interestingly the local safety folk have also taken a stand
http://www.flightsafetyaustralia.com...ilver-tongues/
Of course no mention of their failure to pass quite a few audits of their own actions, a potential movie in itself, with both CASA failing an FAA audit in 2009 and the subsequent Pel Air debacle.
Any government agency has the benefit of hindsight when it comes to such investigations, actions in the heat of the moment are a different thing altogether.