Jeff went to Canberra recently to deliver the final report on "Evaluating the Defeating the Weed Menace R&D Program" at Land and Water Australia and DAFF. Despite the shock of the closure of LWA, a number of staff attended the presentation and became involved in a very useful discussion. The evaluation concluded that the program had performed very highly against its ‘objectives, scientific outcomes and performance indicators' and with a strong positive feedback from researchers about the excellent management of the program.