Breathe taken
My insinuation - if you like - is that if the QLD govt wants to help, they should not sell off vital infrastructure, and make improvements to the same.....sarcastically, also implying that infrastructure that is usually built is usually obsolete by the time it is finished.
YBCG is a crap airport for the amount of movement going through it. The facilities are rudimentary at best, and a real pain in the rear end as a pax, and as an operator.
You want people to come to Queensland?
Then make it easy for them and not a loss leader for the operators.
Oh, and an ILS might be nice too, considering the weather.
Shiiiit, aerobridges for the punters whilst we're at it.