Governments don't often backflip on major policies.
So speculation around the WA government scrapping its controversial Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act shows just how worried Premier Roger Cook and his colleagues are about the continued damage the laws seem to be having.
The laws were introduced in the wake of the destruction of Juukan Gorge, which was authorised under the previous cultural heritage legislation.
But it's those same laws — which the government spent so long saying were problematic — that West Australians could soon be governed by again.
Following months of sustained pressure from the opposition, farming groups and sections of the media, the scales seem to have tipped too far for the government to continue standing by its updated legislation.
Criticisms around the laws' lack of clarity, and the time and cost pressures it would put on landowners, seem to have convinced the government to rethink its approach.
Despite the insistence of cabinet minister Stephen Dawson that "no decision" has been made, there are lots of solid political reasons for Cook and his colleagues to go back to the drawing board.
While the government will cop some flack for introducing and initially standing by legislation so bad it's now apparently scrapping after little over a month of operation, it largely disarms the opposition of one of their key attacks.
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