Sorry Mara. I didn't read all of your comment and feel that I must disagree with your perception of the recent and now past increases by China in Australian companies and industries.
Yes. The best example is Darwin and the Port. Who allowed that to happen? A state government. We were not held at gunpoint or had our lives threatened to conclude such a ridiculous transaction as that has turned out to be. Someone approved it. An Australian or group of Australians.
Also, again with respect, shareholding in companies by foreign companies must go through a process which allows the government of the day to approve such transactions, or otherwise. All very straight forward. It is again an approval from Australia. Someone approved these transactions, An Australian.Yes, Electric power, gas, dairy farms, cattle stations and on. However, China's investment is paltry compared to the US ownership of our country.
Now if you want to pursue the stupidity of what has happened in this feckless country over time, just look at the ownership of our banks, Shareholders. Australians.? Hardly, the same greedy foreign financiers like who own half of America. They were allowed in en masse and we pay the price, ongoing for ever. HSBC, CitiGroup just to name two.
Don't even think on who owns the naturals gas in Australia, the Americans owners export overseas at a great profit while we pay for our own resources through the nose......and very soon get cold in winter unless we can reclaim some of this for our own use. Australia is the only country in the world allowing international oil companies to access and export natural gas without prioritising local supply.
We are totally naive.
It is all based on what Australia has allowed this country to become over time. Foreign investment and ownership at any price with foreign control over our external policies.
And now a country totally subservient to the USA and its military objectives. I would rather deal with China as a client in a proper business-like manner than be a servile bag carrier for a criminal country like America, a country that will demand to populate the north of Australia with bases and military weaponry to add to the 800+ bases in the world now.
Australia a target.... Indeed. Mainland USA a target. Not a chance
Already on the drawing board. Will we give them the OK? Of course. It’s what we do.
Contrarian, I couldn't agree more. To "deal with China as a client in a proper business-like manner" would be my ideal too.
But Australia has been a puppet of foreign powers from its inception, as a penal colony of England. Then back in the 1950s we allowed British nuclear testing at Maralinga, in our beautiful outback, followed by the US bases at Pine Gap, and they also have a (rotating) base at Darwin.
And when we do get a leader who shows a bit of leadership or independence, they get ousted, often by their own party machine.
But Australia is by no means alone in that - every Western country seems to be under the thumb of the Controllers (and it would be simplistic to say "the US" - the "military-industrial complex" might be closer to the truth).
Three cheers for all of that. Australia is an obese, supersized, version of Okinawa or Guam, a forward base for the US to project force across Asia. And forget about China, the local national security people will use every opportunity for institutional and personal self-aggrandisement and the diminution of our rights.
Sorry Mara. I didn't read all of your comment and feel that I must disagree with your perception of the recent and now past increases by China in Australian companies and industries.
Yes. The best example is Darwin and the Port. Who allowed that to happen? A state government. We were not held at gunpoint or had our lives threatened to conclude such a ridiculous transaction as that has turned out to be. Someone approved it. An Australian or group of Australians.
Also, again with respect, shareholding in companies by foreign companies must go through a process which allows the government of the day to approve such transactions, or otherwise. All very straight forward. It is again an approval from Australia. Someone approved these transactions, An Australian.Yes, Electric power, gas, dairy farms, cattle stations and on. However, China's investment is paltry compared to the US ownership of our country.
Now if you want to pursue the stupidity of what has happened in this feckless country over time, just look at the ownership of our banks, Shareholders. Australians.? Hardly, the same greedy foreign financiers like who own half of America. They were allowed in en masse and we pay the price, ongoing for ever. HSBC, CitiGroup just to name two.
Don't even think on who owns the naturals gas in Australia, the Americans owners export overseas at a great profit while we pay for our own resources through the nose......and very soon get cold in winter unless we can reclaim some of this for our own use. Australia is the only country in the world allowing international oil companies to access and export natural gas without prioritising local supply.
We are totally naive.
It is all based on what Australia has allowed this country to become over time. Foreign investment and ownership at any price with foreign control over our external policies.
And now a country totally subservient to the USA and its military objectives. I would rather deal with China as a client in a proper business-like manner than be a servile bag carrier for a criminal country like America, a country that will demand to populate the north of Australia with bases and military weaponry to add to the 800+ bases in the world now.
Australia a target.... Indeed. Mainland USA a target. Not a chance
Already on the drawing board. Will we give them the OK? Of course. It’s what we do.
Contrarian, I couldn't agree more. To "deal with China as a client in a proper business-like manner" would be my ideal too.
But Australia has been a puppet of foreign powers from its inception, as a penal colony of England. Then back in the 1950s we allowed British nuclear testing at Maralinga, in our beautiful outback, followed by the US bases at Pine Gap, and they also have a (rotating) base at Darwin.
And when we do get a leader who shows a bit of leadership or independence, they get ousted, often by their own party machine.
But Australia is by no means alone in that - every Western country seems to be under the thumb of the Controllers (and it would be simplistic to say "the US" - the "military-industrial complex" might be closer to the truth).
Well painted background of the whole sorry situation.
There is nothing you said that is not true. It's all of our own doing.
Three cheers for all of that. Australia is an obese, supersized, version of Okinawa or Guam, a forward base for the US to project force across Asia. And forget about China, the local national security people will use every opportunity for institutional and personal self-aggrandisement and the diminution of our rights.
Exactly. Mara didn't have a problem with Americans taking over Australia. But the Chinese?!