Toward Programme
Foreign investment rule rewrite in Treasury sights after China fiasco - The Australian
Why it matters
Foreign investment rule rewrite directly strengthens Pillar 1 (Resource Sovereignty) and Pillar 5 (Decoupling) by closing loopholes that allowed Chinese acquisition of critical minerals, energy, and infrastructure. This is a concrete policy response to past failures in screening hostile investment and signals Australia's intent to ring-fence strategic assets from foreign control.
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