By the time people needed legal help it was much too late.
Assisting in legal action is one thing, bringing it to the attention of the public would have perhaps been more effective and putting pressure on a minister just to follow due process, our right to "quiet enjoyment" of a commonwealth sub-lease without being personally threatened in our own premises would have been a good start.
The Airport Owners are the Commonwealth Government so who were you actually taking legal action against?
Were you advised by the same people who told you that Merredin had been "transferred into Chinese ownership" ?
If the airport leaseholders didn't do due diligence and paid too much for the leases then that was their problem, the Feds were going to take the highest bidder, of course. GA tenants were only ever going to be collateral damage while Albanese and Garrett looked the other way when the bulldozers and tilt-up concrete came in. It should never have got that far.