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miffed (OP) User ID: 22681904 Australia 09/07/2012 08:41 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.smh.com.au] Recent Chinese investment in Australia includes the sale of Australia's largest cotton producer, Cubbie Station, to a Chinese-led consortium, approved by the Foreign Investment Review Board on Friday. Chinese companies - both private and state-owned - invested a total of $3.2 billion in Australia in 2011, an 86 per cent increase from 2010. Australia is the third-most-popular investment destination behind the European Union and the ASEAN countries. The total Chinese overseas investment increased by a modest 8.5 per cent to $US74 billion ($71 billion) last year as the deteriorating global situation put a brake on its rapid expansion. Previously, Chinese investment expanded by 45 per cent every year between 2002 and 2011. Read more: [link to www.smh.com.au] Last Edited by miffed on 09/07/2012 12:05 PM |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 9113879 United States 09/10/2012 09:17 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This is small potatoes compoaired to whats soon to be happening here in America. The mantra has already started for the privatization of domestic airports. Given the mood, Repubs will sell Alaska and Texas to China if this reign of the chronically stupid continues to inhabit congress. |
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miffed (OP) User ID: 22681904 Australia 09/10/2012 09:25 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This is small potatoes compoaired to whats soon to be happening here in America. The mantra has already started for the privatization of domestic airports. Given the mood, Repubs will sell Alaska and Texas to China if this reign of the chronically stupid continues to inhabit congress. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 9113879 Shit mate that sucks big time!!! |
miffed (OP) User ID: 22681904 Australia 09/10/2012 09:28 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Oh move to perth like a few people I know,they are making 140k a year for just driving a truck Quoting: Dr.Smith Bloody hell I could handle that!!! Yeh I could handle moving to Perth as well lol,dunno bout driving a truck around for 12 hrs a day though haha both my bio & step fathers were truckies so I spose I was 'bred' into it. Plus I was a baker (predominately male business) before so maybe I should've been born male lol |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 23519848 India 09/10/2012 09:33 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The mining industry is keeping this country going but I see now that is under threat from overseas buyers. Quoting: Dr.Smith can i buy a coal mine? Sign me up in your IPL and you have got yourself a deal Sachin thanks man the question which i wanted to ask is why aussies produce best sportsmen and sportswomen in every known sports? |
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miffed (OP) User ID: 22681904 Australia 09/10/2012 09:48 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Maybe a truckie taking the wheat to tip top lol,that would have been a perfect job Quoting: Dr.Smith maybe lol. I must say baking is the best job I've ever had but the bosses have all been perverted creeps (especially the 17yr old!!!!!!) Sure they weren't priests? Lol The 17yr old was my BOSS!!! His father bought the bakery for his 2 boys aged 15 & 17 to run & the little twerp wanted to PAY me to pop his freaking cherry!! I had to tell him to STFU & work every bloody night arghhh. CREEPSTER!!!!!! |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 23519848 India 09/10/2012 09:55 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Maybe a truckie taking the wheat to tip top lol,that would have been a perfect job Quoting: Dr.Smith maybe lol. I must say baking is the best job I've ever had but the bosses have all been perverted creeps (especially the 17yr old!!!!!!) Sure they weren't priests? Lol The 17yr old was my BOSS!!! His father bought the bakery for his 2 boys aged 15 & 17 to run & the little twerp wanted to PAY me to pop his freaking cherry!! I had to tell him to STFU & work every bloody night arghhh. CREEPSTER!!!!!! so you are women and you worked as trucker? |