Concerns about foreign investors driving up housing prices have been growing. Australia was first to bar foreign purchases of existing residential property, but New Zealand is set to go further.
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About 10% of empty dwellings on census night – 1.2% of all housing – were available for rental and vacancy rates have changed little in 35 years. Could governments be overreacting?
As innovative and business-friendly as Australia has become in its short history, what makes Australia stand out to international workers is its quality of life.
Only 18% of Sydneysiders think foreign investors should be able to buy property. They simply don’t accept arguments that this investment improves housing affordability by increasing supply.
Labor will promise to ban direct borrowing by self-managed superannuation funds, as part of a housing affordability policy released on Friday.
With Britain’s exit from the EU, China is losing a champion on similar trade and investment issues.
The public debate about Chinese corporations investing in Australia is spurred by several misleading ideas about the control of the Chinese government and its intervention with private businesses.
The new Critical Infrastructure Centre might provide clarity on certain projects but it doesn’t resolve the ongoing debate on what approach the government should take with foreign investment.
Treasurer Scott Morrison says the government will take on more ‘good debt’ to boost productivity when current spending is under control.
The government says its changes to foreign investment will increase housing supply and make it more affordable, but that’s relying on narrow and possibly incorrect assumptions about investors.
Scott Morrison will argue that Australia ‘can’t afford not to trade’.
Katter’s Australian Party federal MP Bob Katter said 30% of the Northern Territory’s farmland and 22% of Tasmania’s farmland is foreign-owned. Is that true?
The interventionist foreign policy of the Gulf states is increasingly at odds with their economic security.
A new documentary examines indigenous activism in Peru – calling attention to the dark side of the country’s economic boom.
The history of foreign investment in land and real estate shows the global movement of people and capital is closely linked to the prevailing geopolitics.
Evidence suggests our foreign investment policy has changed over time, but to what end?
Football isn’t what it used to be. In Australia, they don’t even know what football is actually called (it’s not soccer). But what’s even stranger is football has become very popular in countries that…
Scott Morrison has formally ruled out Chinese companies obtaining a 50.4% share of Ausgrid.
Energy markets are increasingly global, with growing security issues. Disengaging is not the answer.
Poor Scott Morrison. Public policy storms don’t get more perfect than this. Nor are they generally quite as revealing of the increasingly complex environment in which policies are made these days. The…
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