Foreign Investment in Australia
Time to step up on global kleptocracy
When the Pandora Papers were published last month, few registered their significance for Australian statecraft. Spanning 11.9 million leaked documents, and exposing the property…
Economic diplomacy: Surviving the pandemic’s foreign predators
Buyer beware
At the end of March last year, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg used the pandemic to usher in the biggest re-regulation of capital flows into Australia for decades.
And…
Economic diplomacy: foreign investment under Covid, supply chain kinks
World beating
When the Australian government asserted control over all new foreign investment two weeks ago in response to Covid-19, the move was sugar-coated with the…
What’s so strategic about baby-food?
The discussion about China’s bid for baby-formula supplier Bellamy’s Organic shows the usual confusion about just what should guide decisions on foreign investment in…
No urgency in cutting Australian corporate tax
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull returned from Washington last month even more convinced of the need for deep cuts in Australia’s 30% corporate tax rate, which is well above that…
International vulnerabilities and opportunities for Australia’s universities
On Friday, news broke that the Chinese Embassy had issued a statement in Mandarin on its website urging all Chinese students in Australia to protect their safety. This was…
Commentary
It’s time to clear the clutter on foreign investment policy
Originally published in The Australian.Peter Cai
Commentary
How to improve the FIRB process
Originally published in The Australian Financial Review.Stephen Grenville