Final submissions begin in racial discrimination case brought by Mehreen Faruqi against Hanson. Follow the today’s news liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAs we flagged earlier, the treasurer Jim Chalmers will today announce foreign investment changes, with approvals to be made quicker and greater scrutiny to be placed on potential risks.You can read all the details on this from Peter Hannam below:Right now, we treat investments from right around the world more or less the same. We want to streamline it for the less-risky investments so we can devote much more time and energy and resources to screening the sorts of investments that we’re seeing in critical industries – like critical minerals, critical infrastructure, critical data, and the like.This is all about strengthening the foreign investment framework to make sure that investment is in the national interest. We want to maximise the right kind of investment, but we want to minimise risk and that’s what these changes I’ll announce today are all about. Continue reading…
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Publish date : 2024-05-01 04:22:07
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