Australia has been hollowed out, Australia may have ANZUS but the current crop of 'politicians' are making the bed we as a nation will lay in. If it was only $1,700 for the Chinese to influence one little fella in the Senate, imagine what really goes on?
There is no way an Australian airline privatised and struggling can compete with the hordes of airlines heading south. Soft power is being pushed in our region from an authoritarian regime and no one in an elected capacity could care less..