Basically it's treasonous behaviour that has become the norm for our political class of buck suckers.
Read the links in my post elsewhere in this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28580035
The deal never should have been allowed to proceed in the first place. It was a travesty it dragged on for so long... but then again this is Australia that sells gas to overseas countries for half the price we sell to ourselves (even after liquefaction and transport taken into account).
It is so bad, because Australia is the largest gas EXPORTER in the world, but yet on the flipside the system is so corrupted by vested interests that several states of Australia (e.g. Victoria) are are seriously considering saving money by building several gas IMPORT terminals to buy the gas back from foreign countries, after the Australian gas cartel has already sold to those countries for half the price they sell to locals. It runs right to the top, and beyond. The country is run more by the mining powerbrokers and Murdoch than the politicians who are just muppets. Even our current PM famously said something like "the muppet show is over" when trying to placate the media hounding him after the last successful bloodless coup (changing of the countries leader decided only by vested interests)
