Interestingly... of those Suspension, Extension and Variation applications which were approved after John Barilaro's recommendation to Keith Pitt, they were only in the Joint Authority for Decision status for between 12-30days... Which is less than the average for an exploration permit which was approved in the last 12months (34.8 days) according to the NEATS available data on https://public.neats.nopta.gov.au/ApplicationTracking