A Virgin Australia pilot is responsible for alerting authorities about Chinese live fire drills off Australia’s east coast last week, a Senate Estimates hearing has revealed.

Yeah it's cheeky but they were in international waters and the status quo ain't what it used to be, given we piss them off regularly in the south china sea you got to expect a bit of flex, doesn't make it right, just a symptom of a changing world and they don't give a fuck.

The issue is not that they were in international waters its that it took a domestic airliner to inform the defense force that a live fire had been announced. If defence was aware they have a responsibility to inform air traffic control to divert planes but they never did.  

My understanding PB is the live fire party is supposed to notify the possible aggrieved party or parties prior to letting fly, thier flex if you like is ignoring that and just telling the planes to piss off, our navy probably didn't have a clue they were live firing as, as far as I can tell by what's written, the Chinese ships were not in eyesight, is it hard to learn Mandarin? Asking for a friend!

The point i am trying to press here is that even in senates estimates some highly paid people had more idea about MAFS on channel 9 than a few ships of who we are told is our greatest threat 200klm of sydney letting rockets off. 

I understand, but if they don't tell ya they gunna and you can't see them how do you know they are? 

Well they did tell us......no one was monitoring the radio chatter from our defence force and a Virgin captain had to report it to authorities. How prepared are we really in this country? Senate estimates today should hopefully uncover something but my bet is every question will be taken on notice in a effort to deflect blame.

The Chinese didn't follow normal procedure, simples, they did it this way to cause concern, to point out we are powerless to do anything about it, operational success. Definitely need to lift our game!

Dunno about Nostradamus, but Henry Lawson did.

Well seems like our defence force now concede that is "more probable than not" that these chinese warships are being shadowed by at least one possibly two of their nuclear subs....just a reminder the ships were less than 300klm of the coast of Sydney a few days ago. 

Ha Ha sadly the population has been disarmed to protect the home invading armed scum, i do have a relative who has a old decommissioned firearm with a interesting marking on both the stock and breech of the gun.....a enfield manufactured in  1884....long story short seems the victorian government handed out these guns to farmers to protect themselves against bushrangers etc in the day, how times have changed.

G'day,

Just head to the beachfront near Hobart as they sail past and wave them down...just be careful your room has a porthole if it hasnt your in a sub for sure.

So the torpedo that was found on the beach on the goldie was a inert practice round, after firing it and then loosing track of it they still haven't reported it missing or even a warning to maritime services that its out there somewhere floating around. Last year two drunk mates walked straight through the front gates at Gallipoli Barracks – one of Australia's largest military bases, located just a few kilometres from Brisbane – and drove away in an Rheinmetall MAN HX40M rigid truck. Lets not forget we still have 3 stolen anti tank rocket launchers somewhere out there in the community after they were stolen from the army in 2002.