Huge foreign farmland investor fee hike stirs Labor agenda unease

Andrew Marshall
Updated August 9 2022 - 5:00pm, first published August 5 2022 - 9:00am
Foreign buyers and agents stunned as new FIRB fees top $1m
Foreign buyers and agents stunned as new FIRB fees top $1m

Dismayed rural property marketers want Canberra to divert some of its windfall from foreign investment application fees into supporting farm sector needs, such as agricultural education.

Andrew Marshall

Andrew Marshall

National agribusiness writer

Andrew Marshall is the group agribusiness writer for ACM's state agricultural weeklies and websites. He is a former editor at The Land and has worked in various Rural Press group roles in Canberra, North Richmond (NSW) and Toowoomba (Qld).

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