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Aviation Green Paper—Flight Path to the Future—December 2008

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On 3 December 2008, the Government released an Aviation Green Paper outlining a range of policy options and possible reforms for the future of Australia’s aviation industry.

The release of the Green Paper provided a second opportunity for public input with over 230 submissions received on the policy options it contains.

Drawing on these submissions the Government was able to finalise and release the Aviation White Paper on 16 December 2009. 

Full Text [PDFPDF: 2753 KB] [DOCDOC: 9631 KB]

Individual Chapters

Key Documents

Supporting Technical Documents

  • Analysis of approaches taken to liberalisation of international air services by Australia’s major trading partners [PDFPDF: 1374 KB]
  • Analysis of approaches taken to airport price regulation and quality of service monitoring [PDFPDF: 635 KB]

Submissions responding to the Aviation Green Paper towards the development of the National Aviation Policy Statement

The submission period for responding to the Aviation Green Paper closed on 27 February 2009. 236 submissions were received from industry, government, community organisations and members of the public on the proposed policy initiatives and reforms. The Department reviewed all submissions in the process of assisting the Government in developing its Aviation White Paper and prepared a summary of key issues of the published submissions

Summary of submissions and consultations towards the Aviation White Paper

  • Summary of submissions—Towards the Aviation White Paper [PDFPDF: 1138 KB]
  • Summary of regional consultations—Office of Transport Security, National Aviation Security Taskforce [DOCDOC: 1166 KB]

Submissions responding to the National Aviation Policy Statement Green Paper

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