This is a case study of how utterly idiotic aviation is in this country.
No this is a case study of reality in aviation in this country. Warnervale is not some large regional airport rotting away and dying due to the reduction of local aviation. It is all the airport the surrounding area ever needed, even through the supposed heyday of GA in this country. A 10m wide 1200m strip for the (very) local GA.
Massive big country with crappy roads, 25 million people,
Except that most of those 25 million live pretty close to each other, with reasonably good roads between where most of them are, and no real need to go where most of the other people aren't.