You mean the 'Chinese and Canadian' owners of Merredin?
So someone wants to spend a ton of money upgrading a dying rural airport, train 400 students ($150,000+ a pop = $60million/year). Engineering firms will expand, hire apprentices. They'll need a heap of instructors including a single, multi and high performance areas. They're going to need accomodation, food, transport. So what does everyone do? They poo poo the idea, bet they're the same people complaining GA is dead.
Everyone complains when the farmers can't afford to stay on the land, now we have a opportunity to sell fruit directly to a market that is willing to pay a massive premium(ask over at the fragrant harbour forum how much Aussie fruit is worth). What do we do? Try to stop the deal, wouldn't want to our goods at a higher price would we? We'd rather the farmers go broke so we can sell the land to them later for peanuts anyway.
Foreign ownership of Australian land is a completely different issue that needs to be addressed But this is more then likely a ****hot deal for everyone. Let's not let a little racism get in the way.