What a joke
General Aviation will go back to being a sport for the wealthy.
The main problem I see is the price of land in Australia is unaffordable, small airports occupy large portions of it that greedy developers would love to get their hands on it. Capitalism requires unsustainable growth for the shareholders and they want to squeeze every penny out of the operators for the privilege of using this expensive land. The operators are trying to compete for work with each other often doing things at cost to find work for the aeroplane in the hope of other charters supplying the income once the bread and butter is taken care of. These charters are few and far between.
From what I have seen, most of these operators last 5 years or so, then the next one comes in and does the same thing.
Airports should not be privatized full stop. Do we allow the same thing to happen to ports and bus and train stations?
The government should never have sold off the telcos, the power companies or the airports as now big business squeezes every last drop out of the average Australian and the rich and big business keep getting richer, while our conditions are eroded to compete with third world countries where the cost of living and wages are a pittance.