Exactly Indi. We can’t blame the Chinese or anyone else for trying to buy Aussie land or get as much control over mines or businesses of all sorts as they can.

It is the mongrel Australian government that is being so extraordinarily wrong-headed in whittling away Australian authority over its own land, resources…. and future wellbeing!

why can't we Australians buy land in China?
rehctub,
Because China has a Government which wants China to remain chinese unlike Australia.
I think one of the reasons Australia is disintegrating is that we think we are multicultural & this multi culture works. Well, it doesn't work. We're not multicultural, we're supporting enclaves of mono cultures which delight in the ease of being able to achieve their objective.

The author missed the point.
Most international land investors invest to make money in the food market.
The Chinese are investing in land to send the produce to China in Chinese ships, probably.
How long before 473 visas for several thousand Chinese labourers to
operate the farms, and then transfer pricing not even leaving any tax behind.

As other posters have noted, the foreign investment debate should be about the national interest and whether or not it is wise for Australia's strategic assets to fall into foreign hands. Race is irrelevant.

"While multiculturalism has enjoyed some success, many of our government agencies have failed to acknowledge and effectively manage reverse racism (I would have said the effects of 'positive discrimination') against more established Australians. That unaddressed community frustration felt by some established Australians is surfacing now, and fuelling the sentiments of public debates."

While I don't see how any of this is germane to the issue of foreign investment, Chan has a point here. In fact, it is a point I've made a number of times myself.

Recently-arrived ethnic groups are encouraged under multiculturalism to promote their own ethnic identities and their own group interests. Ethnic minority organisations – cultural centres, business networks and political lobbies like FECCA – are accepted and treated with respect by politicians. However, at the same time, any attempt by members of the Anglo-Celtic Australian majority to advance their own group interests is immediately condemned. Australians of Anglo-Celtic descent are expected to forgo group loyalties and are even punished for showing them in politics and business. How can something be so precious and notable for one section of society but worthless and disreputable for another?

This double standard is most noticeable in immigration matters. Apparently, it is acceptable, even noble, for immigrant minorities to lobby for the importation of more of their own kind. No one in the media accuses them of racism, and instead presents people wishing to maintain the status quo as hatemongers. Yet why is it necessarily more wrong for Anglo-Celtic Australians to want the country to be more full of people like them? Recently-arrived minorities openly brag about their growing demographic strength, while Anglo-Celtic Australians are called racists merely for expressing concern that current immigration policy is rapidly reducing their percentage of the population.

Thank God it looks as though the tide's finally turning. Let's hope it is a high one with plenty of common sense. It got to the stage where a tsunami is needed to flush the nonsense.

The tide is turning?

Doesn’t look like it from where I sit!