Selling of the farm.

[astroron (Ron)]

Very true as is the case of all foreign takeover/purchases of any company.
At any rate, it is my understanding that the Chinese and Japanese consortium will only hold 51% interest in the property.(Quote)

51% controlling interest, Which comes down to the gist of what I posted, Control of Natural assets which to me are of significant strategic value that they should not be controlled by a foreign government owned company.
Cheers

[Colin_Fraser]

Originally Posted by astroron

Control of Natural assets which to me are of significant strategic value that they should not be controlled by a foreign government owned company.
Cheers

I agree 100%, they should NOT be but they are.
It's extremely difficult when the federal government is itself controlled by foreign governments.

[Peter Ward]

I'd advocate a more patriotic view.

No foreign ownership.

Period.

That said, a 99 year lease (al. la Brits and Hong Kong ) with some caveats, sits well with me.

[Lester]

Good topic Ron, if we don't protect what we have now, then little by little we will lose it and then could become a province/state of who ever owns the most. I cannot see the logic of our PMs.

All the best.

[TrevorW]

Originally Posted by ourkind

Agreed, what a disturbing read ...

A lot of educated people think along the same lines

http://articles.businessinsider.com/...-economic-size

Type "China World Domination" into Google and see what comes up. I remember hearing/reading once that China had plans for limited nuclear war and were not concerned to loose half their population in the advent of such.

Once such economic domination occurs, we've seen the good old USA do the same in the past under the guise of WMD etc, who will stop them.

Not scaremongering IMO just highlighting a possible realty lets just hope in never happens

PS: a few futurists and sci-fi writers have penned words along similar lines

[astroron (Ron)]

I have had some encouraging PM's on this debate
This article taken from the ABC website goes to the heart of what I am
getting at.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-10-0...ndrums/4288350
Cheers
PS look forward to the second part of the article tomorrow.

[KenGee (Kenith Gee)]

There are reds under the bed guys.

[space oddity]

The reds are not under the bed, they are in it and well and truly having their wicked way with us apathetic humans. Labor and the Greens are both actively undermining Australian sovereignty. Gillard is a Fabian. If you do not know who they are, you had better do your research. Bob Brown and his Murray-Darling, Murray-Darling nagging is seeing us sacrificing 40% of our agricultural land for "environmental flows" to turn the estuarine lower lakes in to fresh water lakes. This is insane, but does gel in with the UNIDO(aka Lima Declaration)signed under Whitlam in 1975 which divides the world into distinct economic zones. Pity Agenda 21 (signed under Keating in 1992) has some seriously crazy uber green ideas including the notion that food should be sourced from within 100miles.
The Liberals have been infiltrated by left leaning traitors, so it may have to be Bob Katter or some of the independent groups which are springing up with common sense ideals but no funding.
In Victoria, the Rise Up Australia group seems to have the right kind of ideas. I myself am involved with a group that is looking at setting up a new political party with common sense ideas. For those that value Australian Sovereignty and our rights to self determination, PM me and I can get you in the loop .
"All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing"-Edmund Burke

[blink138 (Pat)]

sorry space oddity...... you have made a serious grammatical error, you have used "common sense" and "bob katter" in the same sentence!
and i cant see a problem with sourcing food from within a hundred miles, actually sounds quite sensible to me!
pat

[astroron (Ron)]

Part 2 of Ticky Fullerton's report on the ABC website.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-10-0...stakes/4289756
Cheers

[Zhou (Mick)]

I remember all this xenophobic nonsense back in the eighties. Of course the demon back then wasnt the Chinese but the Japanese.

Please remember that Australia invests heavily overseas; if we as Aussies can invest in other counties It would sound extremely Hypocritical to make a big noise about other countries investing in Australia.

[Zhou (Mick)]

Originally Posted by space oddity

The Liberals have been infiltrated by left leaning traitors, so it may have to be Bob Katter or some of the independent groups which are springing up with common sense ideals but no funding.

Sorry mate! you lost me there.

[astroron (Ron)]

Originally Posted by Zhou

I remember all this xenophobic nonsense back in the eighties. Of course the demon back then wasnt the Chinese but the Japanese.

Please remember that Australia invests heavily overseas; if we as Aussies can invest in other counties It would sound extremely Hypocritical to make a big noise about other countries investing in Australia.

The tenant of this thread is not about investment it is about ownership of a strategic national asset.
Food and water are going to be even more vital for the well being of this country in the future.
The so called xenophobia about the Japanese investment in the 1980's was about real estate on the Gold Coast and Sydney ect not about a valuable and scarce resource like water.
As you are based in China, please tell me where there are any countries that own land or water there,
They don't
Know foreign country can purchase land in China, and that is how it should be.

You can be assured that any product produced at Cubbie Station or any other agricultural area purchased by the Chinese in Australia will not be to the benefit of this country.

Cheers