How did Chinese company Landbridge end up custodians of the port for the next 99 years, and at what security risk to Australia?
Australians clearly have Darwin and the NT firmly in their minds after the episode that propelled the sleepy territory into a geopolitical brawl it had never considered nor understood.
Academics, politicians, lawyers, national security experts, viewers of Millionaire Hot Seat, the New York Times, even the former president of United States Barack Obama have all asked — how the hell was the sun-soaked NT Government allowed to sell off one of Australia's most important strategic assets to the Chinese without proper federal oversight?
Successive governments believed the port held the cure to the NT's economic maladies and that if it could be expanded and maintained, it would surely be a secret weapon in the NT's economic resurgence — and the rest of the nation's by extension — as Australia's"gateway to Asia".
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