In the mid 90's the guru's were busy shutting down the Australian DME system without much consulatation with those that actually used them, and then they were planning to start removing the NDB's at major aerodromes on the J curve and then start removing the rest of the NDB's around the country when they failed.
One problem that ASA does come up with is that a lot of land leased out for navaids was done at peppercorn rental or in some cases a handshake agreement with the local farmer, but now the landowners want big dollars or have been told by lawyers etc to ask for lots of dollars and a very tight contract etc.
For an aid that was going to be phased out, a number of new NDB's have been installed over the last few years.