It'd be a "waste of tax payers money" if they didn't use it so better to just use it and tell us we're all holding it wrong.

"As a horticulturist I know a waratah when I see one," Mr Rees said in a statement. [1]

[1]: https://www.smh.com.au/national/its-a-waratah-rees-insists-o...