The locals at Kempsey need all the help they can get...the town was on skid row before the freeway bypass was built, and last I checked it hasn't got any better.
How much is racism playing into this? To be clear I don't support Chinese state interests, I am against a foreign state like China buying Australian assets, but in the article a local from Kempsey was whingeing that students flying on Australia Day was disrespectful.
Unless there was some sort of prior agreement, why on earth shouldn't they fly on Australia Day to look at this great country from the air? My local airfield was super busy on Australia Day, as it is on just about every public holiday (Christmas excepted).