Which government, yours or ours?
And, in light of that, wouldn't the consulate make some ammends to salaries for such a case. I doubt they can afford to have all their staff skip country because of something like this.
The Aussie government. The Ambo is pissed as hell. He knows what's up. He knows the people can't afford it and this place will lose 98% of the locally engaged staff here. The irony here is that in order for this place to continue operating they will have to request additional funding. So for the tax dollars they generate from taxing the locally engaged staff here, they will have to basically request the same amount.
So basically all they are going to accomplish is fucking up peoples livelihoods.