This article makes a very interesting point that I hadn't heard before. When the Australian government banned Huawei equipment from phone networks, it shut down the only serious proposal to build a new network, handing a lot of Australia's money to the oligopoly that owns the three existing ones.<p>It would be really interesting to know how much of that money was donated back to the political party that banned Huawei.<p>(I've used the title from the paywalled newspaper column. The link is to the author's blog, where the title has a typo that reverses its meaning.)