Of course a green paper is consultative and he is asking frankly for help and ideas.
The consultative and cooperative reflex that has developed within NATO is rare in international relations.
It is merely a consultative and research body, not a transnational regulator.
This, he says, will improve transparency "and, in turn, lead to a more consultative and democratic form of council control".
"It extends Travelocity's brand footprint beyond being just a transaction site into the consultative and planning role offline travel agents have played in the past," he said.
But this was challenged by the claimants who said that the referendum was merely consultative and only parliament had the power to decide.
The trouble is that in government this doesn't get plaudits for being consultative and inclusive, it gets derided for being weak.
But the teams of lawyers deployed by the claimants, interested parties and interveners, some of whom are crowd-funded, counter that the referendum was merely consultative and that a decision to leave has not yet been taken.
He says that a previous draft law, drawn up after a consultative and widely praised national conference in 2008, was dropped when a new minister of solidarity, women, family and social development was appointed.
When Malcolm Turnbull replaced Tony Abbott as prime minister, Brandis was elbowed out of the arts portfolio in favour of Mitch Fifield, who pledged to be more consultative, and returned $32 million to the Australia Council.
It was a coup d'état that empowered the Revolutionary Guard and the military industrial plutocracy while disrupting and disabling the very consultative and inclusive process of governance that saw the regime through all its trials and tribulations.
