How then have Skywest passed the Australian ownership tests associated with the awarding of capacity on international routes out of Australia, which require majority Ossie ownership??
Why get hung up on Australian ownership? It is too late - in recent years almost everything that was once Australian has been flogged off to overseas interests.
Concern grows over foreign ownership of Australian farmland | Adelaide Now
It has been brewing for some time, but the revelation that Chinese state-owned company Shenhua Watermark Coal had spent about $200 million buying up 43 farms on prime agricultural land near Gunnedah in New South Wales has led to calls to halt the so-called foreign "land grab".
The Australian Greens fuelled the fire yesterday, claiming that research they commissioned showed Australia's mining wealth was now 87 per cent foreign-owned, and that $50 billion in dividends from mining companies operating on our shores would flow overseas over the next five years.
Foreign ownership of mining: Xstrata, BHP and tax havens | Crikey
Bob Brown played a canny hand yesterday with his National Press Club address by releasing a report on the level of foreign ownership of the mining industry, showing 83% of mining companies are foreign-owned.
The Government do not like our outspoken Australian owned resource sector.