Almost traitorous sentiments, in my opinion, giving up air rights unneccessarily to the Singaporians ( or the Arabs for that matter ).
Before government starts shipping jobs off shore with policies as such, it needs to look at the uncompetitiveness of the taxation system in Australia. Why should Australian labour & business, be forced to compete at a whim with foreign entities who possess home grown government protectionism ( labour policies, law & taxation ) when the root of the problem is the worlds worst taxation practices.
So, before SQ given a gift horse of trans-pacific flying 1) significant taxation reform needs to have taken place in Oz 2) there is committment from Singaporians in the employment, in numbers, of Australian based airline personnel - labour offsets! 3) Singaporians are forced to invest in local infrastrucutre and not do as they do now, cleverly bring their needs back to their local economy. 4) Singaporian conduct in this country is revealed to the public for media debate.
Until 1-5 addressed, it would be un-Australian to give up another resource to off shore interests.