By Malcolm Brennan King & Wood Mallesons’Canberra office.
The first report of the Agricultural Land Register was released 7 September 2016. The guesswork has been taken out of the discussion and we now know that the total foreign ownership of Australian agricultural land as at 30 June 2016 stood at 13.6%.
The report shows
By Xiong Jin King & Wood Mallesons’ Corporate Group
Since the global financial crisis in 2008, China has seen explosive growth in overseas investment. The Ministry of Commerce forecasts that the size of China’s outbound direct investment will exceed that of foreign capital utilization for the first time in 2015. [1] Australia is one of the earliest countries which Chinese companies have gone out for, and is the second largest target for China’s overseas investment, second only to the United States. Mining is undoubtedly the industry that has attracted most investment from China into Australia. Although there has been a decline in China’s investment into the Australian mining industry in recent years due to factors such as the falling market demand, carbon tax policy, the emergence of alternative countries with resources, the investment in the mining industry in Australia continues to account for the majority of the total investment value.
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