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The poor state of formal environmental auditing of Western Australian rangelands does not appear to have limited adequately the expansive environmental reporting on their health in terms of resource (range) and biodiversity condition. This “pragmatism” is self-defeating on two fronts. First, invalid inference is usually revealed and reflects poorly –sometimes unfairly so - on the projects supplying the results. Second, reporting on what politicians require without adequate data is likely to send the message that significantly more resources are not needed to do the job and therefore sampling will not improve. The important gaps in capacity to report validly on key issues should be highlighted. ...