Having local ownership is a great asset, and we would look very favorably on that. All things equal and if it's a coin toss, we encourage local people to step up and be a part of this.

Local ownership there was critical, and it was crucial to Carl Lindner.

The people in the bush feel they own the RFDS and it's their service and that ownership comes from local management. Most people get very few services and the one constant that's been in their life has been the RFDS. Any attempt to change the way it's managed is quite confronting to them and they would resist considerable change.

This thing smells wrong. They should be making sure that there's no hint whatsoever of any political inside deal, any relationship with campaign contributions.

We wanted (the sculpture) to have a link to skiing, but we also wanted to make it spiritual.

Local ownership there was critical, and it was crucial to Carl Lindner. The one overriding goal we had was to have local ownership.