Forrest has two Chinese directors on the board of his company; one of them is associated with a Chinese steal company with the usual connections to the CCP.

two things.
1) Andrew Forrest serves his own interests.
2) Australia will never close its borders to immigration inflows or outflows. It will only moderate or increase levels

ttbn,

Three if you include Forrest.

And don't forget there will be a lot more Chines in the country pretty soon as politicians, bureaucrats and businesses start bringing in millions more Chinese to get the economy restarted in the wake of the Wuhan Bat Soup Virus pandemic.

Never say never.

Mr. O

I would love to be a fly on the wall when Forrest gets together with his Chinese mates. I wouldn't be surprised if he has been awarded the status of honorary Chinaman.

Our stupid dependence on China, is a pigeon coming home to roost!

And that dependence has its roots in the astronomical cost of energy here! Where this not so, we'd have automated lots more and kept our manufacturing heartland onshore! Needed now for the intended recovery!

Another side of this coin, is rampant tax evasion by the largest international players, doing business/earning profits here.

Tax reform? You're kidding!

With some paying as little in actual dollars, 4%?

With up to 40% paying no company tax at all!

Why? Because they can!

A flat unavoidable rate of 15% would collect considerably more revenue!

As an additional 11% from those who currently pay a little as 4% and 15% from the 40% who pay none now!

40% being the biggest multinationals? Earning the biggest onshore, but completely repatriated profits, due to the vagaries of globalisation?

This is the migration of money and the worst kind of entirely unhelpful migration!

Has to end! As does the huge price gouge of energy as does any form of tax avoidance.

Remember, only profits are taxed regardless of the system or unavoidability even a flat tax. and then only that earned above a designated threshold

That'll stop the migration of money!

Cooperative capitalism as deliberately engineered/preferred and preferenced co-ops, will ensure that every one dollar in our economy, does the productive work of at least seven! Via the usual economic flow on factors!

If we remove the self-imposed imbecilic impediments! We can allow a nuclear energy industry to flower here as, cooperative employee-owned (co-ops) enterprise! And with that, the lowest ever, energy prices, in the world!

And a conga line of energy dependant, high tech manufacture queuing to relocate to these shores!

Ditto fully self-funded retirees, who will bring with them a need for many unskilled services, gardening and housekeeping in particular?

These are the only two forms of migration we need right now and the onshore job creation they will provide!

We just need to remove all the ideological impediments and the business as usual, political bunfights they create!
Alan B.

ttbn,

I don't recall Andrew Forrest, Kerry Spokes, and others of the their kind with apparent affiliations to the Chinese Communist Party, ever protesting about China's annexation of the South China Sea.