So what if there were 300 submissions, had there been three there would still have been an extension. Government's intention right from the start. It is giving them and the WWF time to "plan" the outcome, nothing to do with what landholders have to say. Another con job by the State Government.

It was obvious from the moment the moratorium was announced that the extension would be sought. The problem with politicians making election promises is that sometimes they have to keep those promises. Anna Bligh obviously did not ask the workers in EPA and NRW if the task was doable, don't worry about issues of equity and fairness. If she had she would have been quickly brought up to speed on the many problems that are now before us. It is a very complex undertaking especially when you consider the lack of ground truthing of the so called endangered regrowth layer. When the 1999 VMA came into being the basis was the EPA's regional ecosystem mapping that has taken years to correct (it still is incorrect on many ways) but the 'blue' layer is a far more fanciful beast. How many millions will be wasted in DERM staff hours trying to process complex applications to change faulty mapping? Anna should have asked some questions before she shot the mouth off.

That's fine, John Cotter, but "Plan B" will still need to be big, loud and ugly. There is not a single right that we have ever enjoyed that was not bought with the lives of good men and women, and protected by the lives of so many more. And there is not a single right that we would deserve to keep if we value that sacrifice so cheaply as to let them take it without so much as a bloody nose. We would not be worthy of the death of one good man.