Gents, in my opinion you are missing some important points....

Gents,
in my opinion you are missing some important points. Minister says said to the public and I think he is taking responsibility for eventually judical consequences of his statement. 
1. Mining lease was "pushed out" by influence external political levels.
What is mean? Axiom doesn't show credentials or doesn't have capability to mine? Or maybe there are some inaccuracies during application time. We remember that long time ML application was not going to the boards and ML was issue about 3 months after MMB deliberated.

2. Minister mentiond that he has a lot complain letters about Axiom coming from Isabel's landowners. 
AVQ announced many times that he has good relationships with them. "We are getting Kolosori, we are getting Takata,  we are looking for tenement D, South San Jorge landowners are with us" 
Facts are different. Kolosori PL was not issued and there is some judical conflict with pepole. akata PL was not issued too. In SSJ  Chinese coming with Lerter of Intend. To many co-accidents coming unexpected and they are different from the promises. 

3. RM is talking about  Tovosia's doing for his constituency. I will be carfuell with the opinion as foreigner and have first look in the figures. 
In East Guadalcanal Electorate we have 5595 registred voters. Bradley Tovosia achieved 3377 votes 60.0% Next to was him  Bendick Tova achieved  1058 votes. 18.8%. Tovosia will stand 3rd time in this year and to my knowlage he has good chance to win.
In my opinion CEO of one listed ASX company should talk about facts and not join this kind of conversation in the newspaper. I think in every country leggaly appointed Member of Parliament, long term politician will be disappointed as head of mining regulatory and part of government. In my opinion RM broke some rules in big style.