Dick Smith said "I actually wrote the original CAGRO paper on my kitchen table because the opposition was so great within CASA."
The opposition from CASA was only because you wanted unqualified volunteers to be able to give traffic and weather information to RPT pilots - something that the pilots and CASA would not have a bar of, and with good reason. And furthermore, CAGRO'S came out of a need to provide these services within an MBZ because of numerous incidents that occured after you disbanded Flight Service e.g. AFIZ. CASA has always supported the CAGRO service and recongnizes that it has an important and cost effective role to play as a transition between unmanned CTAF's and class D towers
Lastly, the CAGRO service at Newcastle is not replacing ATC, it is providing an increased level of saftey for RPT aircraft when there is NO ATC service available.