He was fired from the job by the Governor Gential in November, and the continued operation of Pine Gap and Nurrungar was assured. Yay Liberty!
And just so we are under no illusions as to what Herman's starry eyed misrepresentation of the "Liberal Party" does when it's "fighting for workers", be it known that these "weather installations" (in reality monitoring stations for transmissions of interest out of Russia and communist China) were leased at a rate of one peppercorn per 25 years on the understanding that Australian and US military personnel be afforded equal representation in employment opportunities. Which after the ink had dried transpired that the Aussies did the catering while the US got the intel.
You can kinda see why Trump is an improvement over the losers Herman is talking up. I can count on the fingers of my hands the amount of genuinely decent politicians to aspire to the running of the country and not a single one of them is to be found in either house now.