Originally Posted by
Manwell
Those who are defending Chinese buying out our assets, including a military training base, simply don't understand the full scope and size of the problem. On the other hand, maybe they do know the size and scope of the problem intimately, because they're part of the problem. When times are tough, a job is a job, right?
The Chinese are not buying out a “military training base”. Tamworth is a civilian airport run by a civilian shire council that, amongst other operators, contained a civilian flying school that had a contract for some military training.
Now the military is leaving and a civilian training operation will be set up on those premises.
And why shouldn’t those who are affected by it have a say in it? If a bunch of of loudmouths kick up a stink about this school and the Chinese decide to withdraw their investments who wants to go up to all the newly unemployed flying instructors and say to them it was a good thing they lost their jobs?
I can say those who oppose Chinese investment in our flying training sector almost certainly have the fortune of not being a newly graduated grade 3 looking for work.