{"id":16585,"date":"2020-03-29T20:30:53","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T11:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/29\/australian-authorities-to-check-every-proposed-foreign-investment-during-coronavirus-crisis"},"modified":"2020-03-29T20:30:53","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T11:30:53","slug":"australian-authorities-to-check-every-proposed-foreign-investment-during-coronavirus-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16585","title":{"rendered":"Australian authorities to check every proposed foreign investment during coronavirus crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government addresses concerns that distressed Australian assets could be vulnerable amid the economic fallout<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/newsletters\/2020\/mar\/28\/sign-up-for-guardian-australias-daily-coronavirus-email\">Sign up for <\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/newsletters\/2020\/mar\/28\/sign-up-for-guardian-australias-daily-coronavirus-email\">Coronavirus: Australia at a glance<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/newsletters\/2020\/mar\/28\/sign-up-for-guardian-australias-daily-coronavirus-email\">, our daily email newsletter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/datablog\/ng-interactive\/2020\/mar\/26\/how-many-cases-of-coronavirus-are-there-in-australia-live-covid-19-numbers-and-statistics\">Coronavirus Australia maps and cases: live numbers and statistics<\/a><\/li>\n<p>All proposed foreign investments into Australia are to be checked, as the government seeks to protect distressed Australian assets from the economic fallout of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">coronavirus crisis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The government has not frozen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/foreign-investment\">foreign investment<\/a>, but will subject all foreign investments to an approval review, regardless of the value or the nature of the investment. The Foreign Investment Review Board will extend its review timeframes from 30 days to six months, as it works through the government\u2019s new measures.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/29\/australian-authorities-to-check-every-proposed-foreign-investment-during-coronavirus-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government addresses concerns that distressed Australian assets could be vulnerable amid the economic falloutSign up for Coronavirus: Australia at a glance, our daily email newsletterCoronavirus Australia maps and cases: live numbers and statisticsAll &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":820,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,536,6,50,1069,960],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-economy","category-business","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-josh-frydenberg"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/820"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16586,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16585\/revisions\/16586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}