M Coates said
"I have been through Coffs Harbour control area at least 100 times, never had anything but polite and courteous controllers happy to do anything they could."
I have been to and through Coffs many times, the times ATC made it easy were in the minority. I have struck that with most areas with ATC. The only times ATC make it easy is when I'm flying a Bomber on fires, they can't do enough to help then.