Originally Posted by
Ding Dong
I am not that great on economics, or government spending, but why doesn't the australian govenrment actually purchase one or two skycrane helicopters or tender a private contract instead of importing, leasing, then sending them back on a ship or even by air freight (which they have done in the past) every fire season at a massive cost ..... .
Rumour has it that the air freight for Rocky + Elvis II will be about $600k (real $$$$), along with the return freight and Elvis' shipping, that's a cool $A1 million
What a shame some of that couldn't be spent on the local operators, who aren't allowed to reciprocate and operate in the USA during their fire season.
Free Trade Agreement, anyone
