What have we got now is tiers of departmental management that have the power to ensure their own individual and personal unprofessional views ARE what govern the departments direction. We have the epa as preservationist puppets, now effectively run by the rabid ultragreen groups/organisations mentioned on this forum often.
The rot/corruption has set in at a all levels, if you would like to keep your job or advancement or be included on the next spun up idealogicaly driven with ideological terms of reference and wad of funding, do not promote a balanced view, tow the line or find another career. The rot is set from the very top down.
In true Yes Minister fashion although grossly unfunny, to suit their personally driven adjenda it's not the best course of action to release any information in real time until their (off the record) partner green groups have had time to spin up public paranoia with dogma, unofficially on the departments behalf with their tandem ideological aim.
When the departments ideologcal aim has been legislated under this fraud, Government and radical greens now together in chant over the outcome, but with the radicals to distance themselves as an entity yelling for more still to be done.
Now the collusion needed to achieve the legislation doesn't matter because the false perception of a rampant problem has already been created in the public and media's mind. All informed and responsible voices have been silenced by design and can now be crushed with further silence or spun unjustifiable and corrupt press release responses without fear of the colluded aim ever being compromised(aka every single GNS lockout zone, GBRMPA, soon the MB green zones too).
To my mind there has not been a single consevation based lockout or denial of free choice/basic rights inflicted upon the general public that did not follow this entrenched and corrupt standard plan to the letter.
If they are not releasing the information in an ongoing fashion it IS by design and it is to fit their end ideology and it is corrupt and colluded in the extreme.
No way no how would it have been possible for them to introduce the extremist and rabid preservationist ideology into legislation and pending without playing everyone except their alliances for fools.
It works very well I might add, a valid complaint over religion....who you gunna send the letter to....the Pope???? fisheries, epa, GBRMPA etc more are all nothing more than unofficial branches of the green extremists today, sadly with the power and lack of any need to comply with what's reasonable, because they have now have a legislated umbrella called the "precautonary principle" which is a blank check to do whatever they choose without recours. justification or responibilty - ever!.
cheers fnq