Singapore is a place where airport guards tote machine guns and democracy means voting only for 'approved' candidates. The opposition is either crushed by the state or outlawed. Singaporean people genearally have to do what they are told; not what they want. The 'Singaporean state' medels in business and select people often hold commercial power due to Govt. patronage. Is this the sort of business we want as part owners of our own national estate?
Singapore has nothing to offer Australian aviation companies in return for the priveledge of skimming fine profits from our domestic market into their own corporate coffers. 'Buying Australia' piece by piece would suit them fine as they are kind of short on space. Their last big buy here was probably Optus, which now feeds their economy and adds to their future 'purchasing power'. (We all know how 'Monopoly' works!) And from a pilots' point of view, Singapore Airlines crews know how 'caring' their management can be.
We already have an assault on our local aviation market from the taxless and oil rich UAE; another state sponsored enterprise.
In a few years Australia will have aircraft which can 'hub' from Darwin to all the countries of Europe. Singapore knows this and that they will become less relevant except for their natural 'to / from' traffic. It is now or never for them to find a 'domestic' market to operate in. Their own internal distances obviously don't call for much aviationactivity. It is all international from Singapore.
With new ultra long range aircraft types becoming available, opportunities will arise for Australian entrepeneurs to set up operations which service distant markets without the 'politics' of offshore hubs in foreign countries. However they won't even get to the starters blocks if Singapore Airlines or other foreign airlines have already snatched the Australian internal market as their own; especially ones which are 'state' sponsored.
Wake up! Lets be a bit patient and not 'sell the farm' too early in this time of change. 'Australians' can do this better in the medium and long terms. The lobbies that bleat for instant deregulation on the basis of 'competition' aren't worrying about our futures.
Lobby your nearest politician hard now against this short sighted proposal.