I find the complete lack of any meaningful journalism on the issue also interesting...
All there was from AFR, SBS and the Australian Aviation magazine was a cut and paste of the press release... I guess that's what passes for journalism in this country now; just let the companies with their
PR departments write their own news for public consumption....
“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.”
-- George Orwell
The answers to your question are covered here:
Journalism just a PR exercise? &
Over half your news is spin
Here's a snip from the first article:
WENDY BACON: We found that
over 50 per cent was generated by public relations. Now on some of those stories there had been some work done by journalists. But often pretty much they were just straight
PR.