Australia

Chinese snap up historic Kimberley station
- West Australian
- 03 August 2016
Shanghai Zhongfu-owned Kimberley Agricultural Investments is the new owner of Carlton Hill and Ivanhoe, which operate as one station on the doorstep of Kununurra.
Laws surrounding foreign investment in Aust'n farmland too "restrictive": report
- Xinhua
- 21 July 2016
A government-commissioned report into the regulatory burden imposed on Australian farmers has advised the federal government to lift "red tape" surrounding foreign investment in local agriculture.
Report says overseas investors should be allowed to buy our farms
- Herald Sun
- 20 July 2016
Draft report on Australia agriculture regulation calls for the sale of any farmland or agribusiness worth less than $250 million to foreign interests to be exempt from any review process.
China bid for giant Australia farm holding on ice: sources
- Reuters
- 15 July 2016
A China-led consortium seeking to buy Australia's S. Kidman & Co will hold off on a fresh bid for the country's largest agricultural land owner amid concerns it could be derailed by a more protectionist new government, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said.
Australia: Foreign investment in the farm to be a key issue for new government
- AFR
- 10 July 2016
Australia's business and legal communities are calling for a simplification of the policy under which there are six different monetary thresholds for prospective foreign investors in agricultural land to overcome.
Ninety per cent of Aussies oppose foreign farm sales
- New Daily
- 22 June 2016
A new poll by the Lowy Institute found 87 per cent of respondents opposed allowing foreign companies to buy Australian agricultural land — six percentage points higher than a similar survey four years ago.
Chinese firm gets more time to sell stake
- Xinhua
- 21 June 2016
Australia has granted a three-year extension for a Chinese company to reduce its 80 percent stake in Australian cotton farm Cubbie Station after it indicated it could not meet the October 2015 deadline.
US investors pour cash into $1bn agribusiness fund
- The Australian
- 02 June 2016
Australian agricultural assets remain a major a drawcard for international investors with a string of mainly US-based investors funnelling hundreds of millions into a $1 billion fund established by the Queensland agribusiness investment firm, Laguna Bay Pastoral Company.
Australia's $1 billion beef boom funded by foreign investment and super
- AFR
- 16 May 2016
Australia's cattle station sector is set to reach more than $1 billion-worth of deals in less than a year, with the two biggest sources of investment being the controversial areas of foreign investment and superannuation.
Insight Investments taps head of farmland team
- P&I
- 10 May 2016
Tom McKeon was most recently CEO of Hassad Australia, the Doha-based Qatar Investment Authority’s food and agribusiness subsidiary.
Pack your bags to cash in on China’s dairy demand
- Farm Weekly
- 10 May 2016
In partnership with Indonesian agribusiness Japfa and Cargill’s Black River, AustAsia has built five free stall dairy farms in the province of Shandong, plus another in Inner Mongolia, to milk 30,000 Holsteins in total.
¿Se puede comprar un país?
- El País
- 08 May 2016
La paralización en Australia de la venta de una gran extensión de terreno a un consorcio chino reaviva el temor a un nuevo colonialismo.