Originally Posted by VH-XXX
Strategically Australia will not want to divulge it's radar capabilities in full, so if they don't go looking or appear to only be putting in a token search effort, I suspect it will mean that the aircraft never came near Australia.
I tend to believe Abbott will share the data available with Malaysia. This is a major international event involving Australians on board as well.
There's also a lot of things we as the public won't know that they (the investigators) do as well.