at that vote, unless the franchise is changed, neither the A-League clubs nor the players union, the PFA, will have a vote but the federations will."
Why would the Australian state federations be prepared to trash a deal just to kick the Nix out?
Our enemies were the old FFA leadership who thought they could make more money from reassigning our licence. The state feds have an issue with the power of the A-League clubs in general, but I've never heard they have problem with us in particular.
Some of the state federations are very anti-NZ presence in the A-league, some of which is purely emotional/philosophical, some of which is more political and/or commercial. In the early years of the league, the FFA were actually supporters of NZ presence in the league in the face of opposition from the state federations, but the FFA's willingness to carry the torch cooled down a few years back (and that for a number of different reasons too).