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    The Australian government is subsidizing foreign ownership of agricultural land according to a Federal Member of Dawson, angering the representative who says taxpayer money is being used to directly compete against Australian farmers. A Chinese company was awarded a 50-year lease over valuable sugar growing land in Western Australia, after over $500 million in public funds was spent on infrastructure to support the deal. The member argues this goes beyond foreign ownership and amounts to the government funding foreign companies over Australian farmers struggling after natural disasters.

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    The Australian government is subsidizing foreign ownership of agricultural land according to a Federal Member of Dawson, angering the representative who says taxpayer money is being used to directly compete against Australian farmers. A Chinese company was awarded a 50-year lease over valuable sugar growing land in Western Australia, after over $500 million in public funds was spent on infrastructure to support the deal. The member argues this goes beyond foreign ownership and amounts to the government funding foreign companies over Australian farmers struggling after natural disasters.

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    Forimmediaterelease14November2012

    MEDIARELEASE

    AussietaxeshelpdriveAussiefarmsoutofbusiness
    Not content with just approving foreign takeover of Australian agriculture, the Gillard Labor Government is now subsidising foreign ownership of our agriculture land, according to Federal Member for Dawson, George Christensen. Reports today that a Chinese company had beaten Australian interests for a 50-year lease over 15,200ha of highly valuable sugar growing land incensed Mr Christensen, who represents the largest sugar-growing electorate in Australia. Shanghai Zhongfu has reportedly won the sole right to develop the prime agricultural land in Western Australias Ord-East Kimberley region after more than half a billion dollars of taxpayer funds was spent building road, irrigation, port and local community infrastructure to support the deal. Mr Christensen said the Gillard Labor government had tipped in $195 million. Given the amount of taxpayer money that has been poured into infrastructure surrounding the project, this goes far beyond a simple matter of foreign ownership, he said. This is our government funding foreign companies to compete directly against our own farmers. In Queensland, we have sugar cane farmers having to pay for water that naturally flows down the Burdekin River while the government is investing millions of dollars to facilitate an irrigation project for their foreign competitors. Youve got to wonder whose interests our governments are looking after in this deal. Mr Christensen issued a warning recently after preference was given to a foreign power over Australian bidders in the sale of Australias largest cotton farm, Cubbie Station. We make foreign investors jump through all the hoops in the world to buy a humble house but when it comes to major industries, jobs, and food security, its like we couldnt care less. Worse still, we actually fund infrastructure with taxpayer money to get their business started money that could have been used to help Queensland cane farmers devastated by some of the worst natural disasters. Instead, our farmers are told to jump in the lake.
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