I'm fully aware that training Chinese students was great for the GA industry and for towns like Merredin. I found it very strange that this is seen as a bad thing by AOPA. After all, that is how so many Australian pilots were able to get the hours they needed to get into airlines.
Albo was, as I have said many times, the Minister responsible for the airports who turned a blind eye to the way that GA tenants were being gouged and evicted by the Federal airports leaseholders and allowed them to develop master plans that turned "Aviation" areas into "other". Carmen Lawrence and subsequently Melissa Parke also turned a blind eye to what was going on in their Fremantle electorate. The only MPs who stood up for Jandakot tenants were the (both late) Don Randall and Judith Adams at Federal level and Tony Simpson at State level. So I have no faith that any Labor politician is going to suddenly change their mind and see GA in terms of anything other than noise.
I would have thought AOPA would be non-partisan and certainly not xenophobic.