10th September 2011, 03:27 PM
Not wishing to dish other archaeological organisations (yeah, I know, promise not to say that again, will ruin my image!) but the NT is a huge landowner with hundreds of thousands of members, and hence actually have some political clout, maybe the other organisations should get together behind them, since I seriously doubt the government actually gives a fig behind closed doors (whatever they may say in public) what tiny organisations with only a couple of thousand members and absolutely no economic impact like e.g. CBA or IFA thinks....