Stop the Asian Invasion: Chinese Takeover of Australia - Politicians 4 Sale

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http://www.smh.com.au/business/mining-and-resources/hsbc-says-china-buyers-hunting-australian-infrastructure-assets-20150708-gi6u90

Several of China's largest state-run infrastructure groups will bid for a string of port and utility deals in Australia by year-end, reflecting the shift away from deals in the iron ore and coal sectors.

Banking giant HSBC has arranged funding for two of the largest inbound Chinese investments into Australia, in the past year: China Merchants Group, which teamed up with Hastings Funds Management in a $1.75 billion deal to secure a 98-year lease on the Port of Newcastle last year, and more recently China Communications Construction Company for its $1 billion acquisition of former Leighton subsidiary John Holland.

"China has got an enormous amount of sovereign wealth and it is looking to deploy that money into high quality assets into Australia," said Todd Langsford, HSBC's head of leveraged acquisition finance, in an interview with Fairfax Media.



The bank said there has been a strategic shift within China from mining and resources deals to infrastructure assets, reflecting a move in its economy away from heavy industry into transport, logistics and engineering with a long-term investment focus.

"When you talk to the senior folk in those firms, it's not just a pure investment thesis," said Lyndon Hsu, HSBC's Asia Pacific head of leveraged acquisition finance. "In fact the returns these investors are making you could not describe as being short term, high level returns. They are actually more longer term based returns."

While long-term supplies of Australian iron ore and coal remain critical for China, deals are unlikely to be so closely tied to the mine gate, according to Mr Hsu who points to China Merchants and Hastings' preference for long dated, reliable returns from the Port of Newcastle.

"Clearly China Merchants were attracted to the infrastructure asset and they like the long-term returns associated with that type of investment," said Mr Langsford.

[Br.IanVonTurpie]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5h5nPLK6_Q

"You thiin you wii da waa buut yoo didn win da waa. Japnee man buy Australa"

http://img.memecdn.com/asians_mp4_1167639.mp4

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http://www.ntnews.com.au/realestate/chinese-billionaire-communist-xingfa-ma-pays-47-million-for-nt-cattle-station/story-fnk4wt05-1227446749185


A SENIOR Chinese Communist Party member has purchased two cattle stations on the Northern Territory-Queensland border. 
 
The $47 million deal will see Xingfa Ma, who made his billions in the ball bearing business, acquire Queensland's Wentworth station and the NT's Wollogorang station – a property known for its shady criminal history as much as its beef production and natural beauty.

Mr Ma is listed by Bloomberg as a member of the Chinese Communist Party and a former member of the Zhejiang Committee of the National People's Congress.

According to Reuters, the sale was finalised this week and will see Mr Ma add to his portfolio of Australian pastoral properties: Balfour Downs, Emu Downs and Wandanya Station.

He will acquire 40,000 head of cattle along with more than 700,000ha of pastoral land, where a gang of notorious international criminals were once busted running a massive drug operation. Former member of the NT Police Drug Squad Dennis Hart said the drug plot came undone when the group tried to fly a shipment of drugs into Sydney.


more bloody treason!

[Br.IanVonTurpie]

http://www.ntnews.com.au/news/world/australia-and-us-insist-talisman-sabre-2015-not-directed-at-china/story-fnjbobed-1227445969455

During a lightning visit to the exercise area on Sunday, Prime Minister Tony Abbott insisted that China appreciated that Australia was an ally of the United States.


"That has never stopped a very strong friendship with China," he said.

"Both Australia and the United States and Australia are friends of China's. We are all encouraged by the rise of China."

For many in Washington the news that they were friends of China would have come as a surprise.

Given the amount of military might on display at TS 2015 and that China has in the past described Australia as the "southern claw" of the American crab, Beijing might have been equally shocked by the Abbott "friends" analysis.

For those in the Pentagon who believe that China's growing military might and territorial arrogance in the South China Sea are key drivers of the American "pivot" to Asia and Uncle Sam's growing military presence in Northern Australia, not to mention the involvement for the first time of Japanese forces, it is a tricky concept to grasp.

Mr Abbott further confused things when he declined to rule out the possible future permanent basing of US forces in Northern Australia.

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I found a card with this info on it.

AustralianUnions.org.au

Unemployment is at worrying Levels and for young people it is reaching crisis levels in many communities.

Jobs for our kids and community should be the number one priority for our local member Fiona Scott but she is a member of a Government that has:-

*Signed a free trade deal with China that allows companies to fly in their own workforce without a requirement to hire ANY local workers

*Allowed employers to use and abuse temporary work visas with 10% of the workforce now on temporary work permits.

*Let 200,000 good jobs go offshore after Joe Hockey goaded the car industry into leaving the nation.

*Caused the loss of 20,000 jobs through their savage cuts to local and community services.

AT THE SAME TIME THE ABBOTT GOVERNMENT HAS:-
*Cut Billions to the TAFE system.

* pushed to make a university degree course cost $100,000

*tried to remove unemployment benefits from young people.


for further talk email cvonwootten@actu.org.au


I am definitely not a fan of Labour.. but the Libs have done some major mess ups as you can see! Privatisation is just treason!