Concern grows over foreign ownership of Australian farmland
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Jun 29, 2011, 6:41:18 PM6/29/11
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30-Jun-2011 - Cameron England (Adelaide Advertiser)
WE'RE selling the farm. That's the fear - both literal and figurative - which has inflamed Australian political debate this week.
It has been brewing for some time, but the revelation that Chinese state-owned company Shenhua Watermark Coal had spent about $200 million buying up 43 farms on prime agricultural land near Gunnedah in New South Wales has led to calls to halt the so-called foreign "land grab".
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