Why? ... Signing up to China's 'Belt and Road Initiative' [debt trap diplomacy](BRI)
Piss fart African nation Djibouti signed up for $1.1bn.
They couldn't service the debt so handed a port over to China.
Within 1 year Chinese troops were conducting live firing training in Djibouti.
Andrews and Pallas have signed up for $24.5bn.
treason
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the crime of betraying one's country, especially by attempting to kill or overthrow the sovereign or government.
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conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch.
So do we seal the Victorian borders from the rest of Australia (post COVID border closures)?, cancel their citizenship and deport them to China?, or hang them from a clock tower?