Morrison, through his own indolence and our no longer fit-for-purpose political system, can't do anything about one of Australia's state's flirting with the Chinese Communist Party. He would have no show telling a foreign country (PNG) what to do, even if he had the courage (which he hasn't). The only course a decent leader would have would be to threaten to stop foreign aid - which would be immediately replaced by China.

No. As far PNG and other tinpot countries in the region go, it's a case of 'what will be will be', and Australia had better start spending more on defence and try to get more US troops stationed here.

As the Chinese tenders are politically designed there is no point
trying to compete with them. If you do tender a low price just to get
the job. their next tender will be lower still.
Obviously the CCP is subsidising their tenders and no inquires will ever get that admission.
The best tactic might be to plant a question in the PNG mind;
"Why are they underquoting ? What is their real objective ?"

Chris Lewis,

When the international border is fully opened again just watch Scotty start swamping our cities and towns with cashed up Chinese probably getting us taxpayers to pay QANTAS and Virgin Australia to fly them in.

Old Scotty's War of Words on China is about as realistic as a White House home movie of Donald Trump recovering from the WuFlu.

Move out of Darwin.

Dan

Why should Australia deny PNG much needed Chinese development capital
diver dan.....,
Whilst I'm totally against foreign ownership of infrastructure in Australia, borrowing is actually vastly different from investing.
Borrowing is actually preferable as it can be paid off eventually whereas allowing a stand-over merchant to move in in is actually stupid !

That is what the Sri Lankans thought.