This study estimates the impact of foreign demand for Australian residential real estate on property prices.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull recently said: “ China has more freedom to invest in Australia, indeed all foreigners have more freedom to invest in Australia, than almost any other country.” But is this true? We asked two experts to discuss the evidence for and against this statement. Gennadi Kazakevitch argues Turnbull is right given Australia’s...

On 11 February 2015, the Government announced a suite of reforms designed to increase transparency around foreign investment in Australia. These reforms included the establishment of a foreign ownership register of agricultural land and changes to Australia’s foreign investment screening regime as it applies to acquisitions of agricultural land. The Register of Foreign Ownership of...

Foreign investment clearly can play an important role in developing Australia's economy. But the issue is that the current foreign investment rules are too lax and too vague to protect the national interest. Australia needs to be aware of how much of our agricultural land we are selling and to whom, so that we can...

One of the poorly understood impacts of a company tax cut is that there is little benefit to domestic investors because the way that company tax payments are credited against the tax payable by Australian owners of companies. The system of crediting company tax paid against the income tax liability of shareholders is known as...