The election has plunged the country into uncertainty and has placed a possible question mark over Australia for companies looking to invest.
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Research shows how tobacco companies are feeling the effects of smoking bans across the world.
The message Chinese investors are getting from Australia is shifting from ambiguous to ominously hostile.
Treasurer Scott Morrison’s reason for rejecting the Chinese bid offers a radically different definition of ‘national interest’ but doesn’t say much about how foreign interests are defined.
A survey has found that the percentage of foreign ownership is more worrying to Australians than the country-of-origin of the investment.
Foreign investment could fall by close to a quarter, harming productivity and incomes if Britain leaves the EU, according to new research.
The Barnett government’s plans to sell ports, including the last capital city port slated for privatisation, appear to have been torpedoed by the WA Nationals’ change of heart.
Treasurer Scott Morrison has approved the $280 million sale of Australia’s largest dairy farming business to the Chinese-owned Moon Lake Investments.
International investors will have to comply with new rules designed to stop tax avoidance by multinational companies.
There’s no accurate data on foreign investment in Australian real estate, but what we do have suggests it’s only partly to blame for rising house prices.
Former ASIO director-general David Irvine has been appointed to the Foreign Investment Review Board.
One can only speculate how the discussion would have gone if Tony Abbott had survived as prime minister long enough to meet Barack Obama during this week’s summit circuit.
Treasurer Scott Morrison has blocked Chinese attempts to purchase the vast Kidman empire - which amounts to 1.3% of Australia’s total land area.
The “national interest”, at least as far as economic policy is concerned, has always been a contested compromise and a consequence of the relative political influence of domestic forces.
Dublin has managed to keep the money rolling in while others struggle, so what are the lessons to learn for its neighbours and rivals?
The housing and housing affordability crisis will not be solved by a clamp-down on one group of buyers.
The preliminary deal won’t lift any sanctions, but businesses eager to return to Iran won’t wait for the ink to dry to gear up.
Labor and the unions have decided to play the China card in the NSW election. Such scare campaigns ignore the facts, including that Australia has invested almost as much in China as China has here.
There can’t be too many people in Australia who don’t recognise that the health of the Australian economy is increasingly determined in China. The boom and all-too-predictable bust in the resource sector…
Changes to our foreign investment regime are more tinkering around the edges than true reform.
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