Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "60 Minutes Australia" channel.

NO its NOT criminal its exactly how safety in the engineering fields work. No matter how well qualified (and I am qualified in safety engineering) we get OVERRULED by those who are not qualified and at times SACKED for speaking out, which has happened to me. We now live in an era where qualifications, experience, standards and regulations ARE OPTIONAL and in many aspects they are seen as NEGATIVE QUALITIES especially by certain types of people. This is PART OF the whole deregulation mantra of the business world and economists that started with Reaganomics and Thatcherism that preached Chicago School economics from people like Milton Freidman. In one of Milton Freidman's books he argued against regulating and licensing doctors. He claimed people would work out who were the good doctors because their patients would survive and therefore it would be better to let market dynamics rather than a regulatory framework decide what was best practice. That's exactly how the Americans reduced the FAA into ineffectiveness that lead to the Boeing Max-8. Its exactly how other regulatory bodies have been chopped down to the bone and lead to other disasters.
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I'll give you a possible maybe based on something Political strategist Peter Zeihan said about the Chinese "Weather Balloon" that floated over America before they shot it down. He's said this several times but the basics are that the Americans knew all about it and what it was doing. INSTEAD of simply shooting it down first chance they got, they listened to every transmission it made and every instruction it got and then back hacked the entire Chinese system. Peter has described it as the breakthrough of the decade and the stupidest thing any nation has done this century so far because the Americans have now completely hacked the Chinese system and broken all their encryption. Based on that we might be able to assume knowing that the Australian security agencies know EXACTLY where these houses are and can do similar. They can just listen to everything going in and out of those houses. Because they are illegal and are NOT official Chinese state property (like an embassy or consulate) there's no need for any warrants or anything else. Australia's security agencies can just do whatever they like. So there's a possibility (and its a big "if") that the Australian security agencies now know the identity of every Chinese agent in Australia. Who they are, where they are, where they go, what they've done and what they're doing now.
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@Oystein87 Its annoying to have clowns like you prove how little you know. This is what it means to de-regulate industry and go to self certification systems. If its not specifically stated in a regulation that's stipulated by a government act then IT IS NOT ENFORCEABLE and that includes standards. Unless a standard is specifically stated to be required by law then you don't have to use it. Almost none of the engineering standards around the world INCLUDING most of the safety standards are actually required by law. I have been in the meetings where I got stomped on by people saying "that's only a standard." I have actually been kicked off projects just like the guys at Oceangate for speaking out and because of how employment contracts get written people have defense AND if you speak out you can get sued for breach of contract.
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@raeperonneau4941 That international waters issue might also be the thing that catches them out because it brings it under an unusual US law called the Death on the High Seas Act, which covers liability for vessels operating beyond America's sea boundary. There's a YT Channel called "Legal Eagle" and he did a video on this.
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@the_kombinator Correct - How much is being said about the Boeing Max-8 with over 300 dead? - How much is being said about the trawler that sank off Greece with around 700 dead? Dead normies doesn't rate as well as 2 dead billionaires.
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