Forum flops or designed to flop?

On 5 September, The Toowoomba Chronicle carried an article titled "Forum flops as expected crowd fails to turn up".

But was it designed to flop?

How many Toowoomba residents knew where and when it was to be held? I know residents who had no idea it was on.

There's no reference to it on the Water Futures Toowoomba website. Was it widely advertised?

At the meeting, according to the press report, the Mayor is quoted as saying the Council is going to distribute written information.

There's only one piece of written information I want to see - written conclusive proof that ingesting I-PU! does not have long-term consequences.

Why does the Council avoid addressing that issue, fudging by saying "the process is safe" and "it removes bacteria".

Is anyone on the Council prepared to actually sign their name to a document that the process is safe?