*Note: The data in each graph is usually displayed in the order of pending to completed applications.
The figures 1-5 above are based on the public data extracted from https://public.neats.nopta.gov.au/ accessed 08/10/2021 and graphed. A red arrow identifies PEP-11's application(s). Most notably the biggest take away from this data suggests that of those applications which have spent time in the "Joint Authority for Decision" status (Figure 3), one of the PEP-11 applications has spent the most amount of time in that status, more than any other application within the last 12months.
Therefore the interesting points include: i) PEP-11 has the longest wait in the Joint Authority status of all the applications currently displayed in NEATS (<12months) (at 351 weekdays) ii) Since the change in status of PEP-11's first application (23/01/2020) back on the 07/08/2020 from "Further Information Required" to "Joint Authority for Decision" it has been 427days or 300 weekdays. iii) John Barilaro took 135 weekdays to decide on the application from 07/08/2020 to 17/02/2021. iv) Keith Pitt has so far taken 165 weekdays from 17/02/2021. v) Other applications stuck in the Joint Authority for Decision process have been there for 319weekdays, 275weekdays, 266weekdays, 213weekdays or less, see Figure 3. vi) Omitting the days spent in the Joint Authority for Decision status of the first application, previous to 07/08/2020 (the first time this application was in the Joint authority status) then the first PEP-11 application would have only been in the Joint Authority for decision status "the second time" for 300 weekdays as of today (07/08/2020 to 08/10/2021). Therefore, even if an argument was made: 'the time that the first application spent in the Joint Authority status "the first time" "doesn't count" (for the purposes of priority),' you would still be left with 300 weekdays. This is only 19 weekdays behind the West Seahorse application which has been in the Joint Authority for decision status for 319 weekdays. vii) As we can see from the Figure 5 chart, there is a strong outlier, being PEP-11's first application (23/01/2020). Of all the exploration permit applications within the last 12 months that have had time in the Joint Authority for Decision status or may spend time in the Joint Authority for decision status (meaning a NOPTA application that will require a decision by Resources minister) the 23/01/2020 PEP-11 application's 351's weekdays is 151.29% of EPP46's application (the exploration permit's NOPTA application which spent the second highest amount of time in the Joint Authority for decision status [second to PEP-11's 23/01/2020 application]). Out of the completed applications displayed in Figure 5, the average time spent in the Joint Authority for decision status of those exploration permit applications was ~45.58weekdays. PEP-11's 23/01/2020 application has therefore spent more than 770% of the time in the Joint Authority for Decision status than the average time spent in the Joint Authority for Decision status of those 'completed applications' which are displayed in Figure 5.
Soon to be 365weekdays in the Joint Authority for Decision status.... One whole year of just "week days" in just one part of the NOPTA process, almost unbelievable.
