In December 1996 the Department of Natural Resources and Enviroment with the support from the Victorian Farmers Federation (The states major farmer representative body) commenced an eradication program of Ovine Johnes Disease in the state of Victoria, Australia. The program was based on compulsory slaughter and destocking for a minimum of 2 summers of all sheep, goats, deer, and alpaca on properties where OJD was identified.The Victorian OJD Action Group a group of sheep owners directly affected by the program presented a paper to the sixth International Colloquium held in Melbourne Australia in 1998 highlighting the affect of an eradication program on sheep owners. This paper will update our 1998 paper, with specific reference to the circumstances which ultimately forced the Victorian Government and the states major farmer representative body to terminate eradication in favour of a voluntary control and management program. Our paper will also reflect on the status of an ever changing National OJD program, its prospects of success and its relationship to the OJD program in Victoria. It seems some natural justice has prevailed in Victoria where-in common sense has achieved a partial gain at the expense of closed door bureaucracy.