{"id":50637,"date":"2021-02-23T17:25:13","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T17:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/?p=269890"},"modified":"2021-02-23T17:25:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T17:25:13","slug":"war-for-water-why-the-foreign-investor-advantage-over-australian-farmers-in-water-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/23\/war-for-water-why-the-foreign-investor-advantage-over-australian-farmers-in-water-deals\/","title":{"rendered":"War for Water: why the foreign investor advantage over Australian farmers in water deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"800\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/water.alex_.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"Water rights, Watergate\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/water.alex_.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/water.alex_-480x300.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 800px, 100vw\" \/><\/div>The \"corporatisation\" of Australian farming continues apace. Almost 14% of agricultural land is now owned by foreign investors who, according to a ruling by the ATO, do not have to pay capital gains tax on water rights. Callum Foote reports.\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/war-for-water-why-the-foreign-investor-advantage-over-australian-farmers-in-water-deals\/\">Michael West<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;corporatisation&#8221; of Australian farming continues apace. Almost 14% of agricultural land is now owned by foreign investors who, according to a ruling by the ATO, do not have to pay capital gains tax on water rights. Callum Foote reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1875],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50637"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50834,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50637\/revisions\/50834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}