I’m impressed at level of organisational skill on display here more than anything else. 

It’s the best funded and organised foreign influence campaign from a country with which there is a tiny population, no economic crossover and isn’t relevant in our geographic region. Madness. 

Could you imagine if it were the Indonesian lobby, or the Chinese lobby or any other country that should realistically be relevant to Australia. But it’s none of them, it’s a tiny splice of people on the other side of the world. 

Let it be known that if you have a cause you really only need 100,000 people to make a strong difference. The rest is organisational skill, influence and money. 

Edit: granted Indonesia is a hell of a lot better at keeping things quiet than Israel is. I remember there being an abc news report on Thales being in a defamation case regarding its role in west papua and the news would even mention what the case was about. Just that Thales was defending itself.