John Howard is appreciated now that he has gone, he solved the boat people problem with his Pacific solution. Rudd turned this into the current nightmare by dismantling Howards way. Gillard is hamstrung by Bob Brown and his Greens. The Greens will always play spoiler and will never be satisfied in their quest for what is basically an illusion. Their perfect world would not work.

Will it never end ?
The latest is the report from BITRE 117.
Australian Government Oil Supply Trends.
Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economies.

It has been suppressed. The list of reports ends at 116 and then after
that the numbers are random. It has been removed from the sites involved.
It was released by a Paris based journalist after it had been sent to
other governments.
You can find it at;

http://ianmcpherson.com/blog/audioAustralian_Govt_Oil_supply_trends.pdf

More info of the hiding of the report can be found at;

http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-01-20/australian-peaky-leaks-goes-mainstream

It was reported in the Daily Telegraph last week also.
It appears that the government's own report advises that oil supply
will start reducing permanently from 2016 but the govt does not want
the Australian public to know about it.

I guess they don't want to be asked what they are going to do about it.
I have read a lot of it and it looks to be a very thorough report and
comes to many of the same conclusions I have read elsewhere, such as
the Upsalla University Global Energy Groups reports which forecasts 2015.

I suspect that Martin Ferguson would not have suppressed it as he
is already aware, but it has the smell of Julia Gillard.