The chances of the Abbott Government heeding the advice of the CCA appear as distant now as ever.
Gove, who has been canvassing opinion among Tory MPs, indicated that the prime minister is heeding the concerns of Perry and scores of backbenches.
But he has no intention of heeding Qatar's public warning this week to stop querying its right to host in 2022.
In 2012, after more than 70 people were killed in a deadly stadium melee in Port Said, he backed the ultras by heeding a demand not to play in the opening match of the following season.
Heeding the second of these three warnings: if you decide to only engage with the future when it looks like a fire needs putting out, you run the risk of acting only in response to a world created by other people's vision of the future.
Less so, surely, than if the comedian had made it before the deadline for voter registration; presumably his most obedient fans, heeding his earlier advice not to vote, declined the now-expired chance to register.
If Lakshmi Mittal, an Indian-born entrepreneur who is putting together history's greatest steel empire, follows the vision of Andrew Carnegie, then the hope is that the rest of the world returns the compliment by heeding the 19th-century industrialist's arguments.Yet right now that hope seems a vain one.
Politicians are heeding howls from bricks-and-mortar retailers that current law gives Amazon and its kind an unfair advantage.
The new owners want to make Hasselblad more profitable and then float it on the Stockholm stock exchange.That meant heeding the advice of Andersen Consulting, which reckons that good cheap digital photography is further off than Hasselblad had thought.
But heeding disagreeable election results is for wimps, judging by the attitude of Kenya's Mwai Kibaki or Zimbabwe's Mr Mugabe.
China's economy is pulled along by a team of galloping horses, more intent on outrunning each other than heeding any pressure on the reins.But the reins are pulling tighter.
