FIRB changes should not be overshadowed by scaremongering
An overhaul of Australia's foreign investment criteria will provide greater certainty for inbound investors and should not be subject to an "element of scaremongering" about Chinese state-owned...
View ArticleDown Under wary of China ‘sell-out’
AFPSYDNEY (AFP-Jiji) — With Chinese buyers eyeing farm land in Australia and New Zealand, authorities are coming under growing pressure to balance the need for foreign investment against accusations of...
View ArticleCritical asset sales to fall within foreign review net (Liberal Party of...
(Source: Liberal Party of Australia) Hon. Scott Morrison MP Treasurer The Turnbull Government has further bolstered Australia's foreign investment rules after securing State and Territory support to...
View ArticleAustralia bars foreigners from buying world's largest ranch
The Australian government announced on Thursday it had barred foreigners from buying a company that owns the world's largest cattle ranch and other Australian farmland greater in area than South Korea....
View ArticleAustralia bars foreigners from buying world's largest ranch
The Australian government announced on Thursday it had barred foreigners from buying a company that owns the world's largest cattle ranch and other Australian farmland greater in area than South Korea....
View ArticleAustralia’s largest landholder agrees to sell to Chinese-led consortium
Dakang Australia and Australian Rural Capital say they want to transform S Kidman and Co into a global beef brand...
View ArticleShanghai Pengxin to buy Australian cattle rancher for $288m
A Chinese-led group has agreed to buy Australia's most iconic cattle company in a deal valued at more than A$370 million ($288 million) after partnering with local investors. The venture, headed by a...
View ArticleScott Morrison delays foreign sale of S Kidman & Co until after election
Treasurer will consider if Australian bids had every chance to buy company, set to be majority Chinese-owned...
View ArticleAustralia bars foreigners from buying world's largest ranch
The Australian government announced on Thursday it had barred foreigners from buying a company that owns the world's largest cattle ranch and other Australian farmland greater in area than South Korea....
View ArticleScott Morrison's decision to block S. Kidman and Co sale leaves investors fuming
The Turnbull government has thrown doubt over foreign investment in Australia after announcing it would again block the sale of Australia's largest private land holding to Chinese interests. It's a...
View ArticleChinese takeover of Australia's largest agricultural land holding receives...
CANBERRA, March 8 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese takeover of Australia's largest agricultural land holding, S. Kidman & Co., has received a lifeline, with a local investment company announcing it will...
View ArticleAustralia blocks farm sale to Chinese over national interest
CANBERRA, Australia — Citing national interest, the Australian government on Friday blocked a Chinese-led consortium from buying the nation's largest private land holding, a collection of Outback...
View ArticleOwners of Australian cattle empire refuse to split up property for sale
CANBERRA, May 3 (Xinhua) -- The owners of S. Kidman and Co, Australia's largest private landing holding, have refused to split up their vast cattle empire after the Federal government rejected the...
View ArticleAustralia Set to Block Chinese Purchase of Iconic Cattle Ranch
Australian Treasurer Scott Morrison indicated he’s likely to block the sale of the country’s most iconic cattle company to a Chinese buyer. A consortium...
View ArticleAust'n, Chinese consortium ups bid for world's largest cattle station as...
by Matt Goss MELBOURNE, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- A consortium consisting of Australia's richest woman and a Chinese investment firm has upped its bid for the world's largest cattle station, making them the...
View ArticleNewsmaker: S Kidman & Co
In 1870, a 13-year-old boy ran away from home in Adelaide, South Australia, to forge a future in the outback, where fortunes were being made and lives lost by pioneers wresting a living from the...
View ArticleKidman sale imminent with Shanghai Pengxin Group in box seat
The federal government is poised to wave through the high-profile sale of Australia's largest private landholding, the S. Kidman & Co farm portfolio, after blocking the deal in November on national...
View ArticleReinhart, Shanghai CRED ink deal for cattle empire
Australia’s richest woman Gina Rinehart and Chinese developer Shanghai CRED (上海中房置業) have agreed on a deal to jointly purchase S. Kidman & Co, the country’s largest private land holding, for A$365...
View ArticleChinese group gets Aussie govt approval to buy local cattle empire
CANBERRA - Australia's Treasurer Scott Morrison approved on Friday the sale of Australia's largest pastoral land holding ,S. Kidman & Co, to a partnership involving local mining magnate Gina...
View ArticleKidman to head to carvery while Chinese suitors seek Australian partners
The world's biggest cattle station, Anna Creek, will be carved out of the sale of S. Kidman & Co's properties to foreign investors in an effort to appease Treasurer Scott Morrison. Fresh bids have...
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