"What ****** in the RAAF, approved that piece of garbage to get aired on TV".
Yes, I agree totally; that was way below optimal. Didn't seem to have any coherent or logical plan to it; just jumped from one unco-ordinated topic to another without any connection by way of time-line or subject. It had the ABC aroma all over it.
"A few bombs might be a more appropriate alternative".
I tried. When that F-18 sim was housed down along Nudgee Road, I gave it a go just to see how much of a ham-fisted pilot I was (I am). The young man managing the event gave me the plan "take off Amberley, overhead Brisbane, down to Evans Head, drop weapons, low level back to Amberley". So, I asked him "son, how about we go to Canberra and we drop a weapon on Parliament?".
I got a one-word answer of "No".
I'll wait 'til he has had a couple of decades paying tax and listening to the garbage that comes out of the place and ask again.