I have commented in four blogs on the stupid decision last year to lease the Port of Darwin to a Chinese company for 99 years. Now the Treasurer has knocked back further Chinese ownership of our electricity grid – let us do the obvious sensible thing and tell the Chinese we have changed our minds and Darwin Port is not for lease/sale. Lock the lawyers in a room till they come up with a formula. Nationalize it if we have to – just correct the monumental stupidity and lets move on. BTW does anybody know if Tony Abbott was the first PM to sight the proposal? Timing would suggest he must have known but I can not confirm that with Google.
In an interview today with Alan Jones, Paul Gibb emeritus professor of strategic studies at ANU described attitudes in Australia to strategic defence issues as being in lala land. I have to agree with him.
Link to interview here: www.2gb.com/audioplayer/196696
If it came to nationalization as an option, who knows what ancient legislation might be still on the books.