From the information I have Puece, the minister has only approved the trials. It seems to me that he has been seriously misled by ASA.
1. He obviously has not been informed of the much more appropriate CAGRS service developed by CASA for these very aerodromes.
2. The fact that CASA only found out about it when they heard of the meeting at Wagga and decided they had better go an see what ASA are up to.
That seems deliberately deceptive to me.
Airservices also told the meeting at Wagga that the unicom operators would be recognised at CAGRO'S - that's another deception. To be a CAGRO you must have held an ATC or Flight Service licence in the preceeding 10 years. I bet they haven't told CASA about that one either!