{"id":29863,"date":"2020-10-01T19:54:54","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T09:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=29863"},"modified":"2020-10-01T19:54:54","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T09:54:54","slug":"ban-foreign-ownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=29863","title":{"rendered":"Ban Foreign Ownership"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"502\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Ban_Foreign_Ownership.png\" alt=\"Ban Foreign Ownership\" class=\"wp-image-29864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Ban_Foreign_Ownership.png 600w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Ban_Foreign_Ownership-300x251.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Just for the record, I don&#8217;t differentiate between the Chinese, the POMs, the Yanks or the Martians! If it is Australia it should be Australian owned, National sovereignty is not a guarantee of food security but if our land is owned by others, how can we guarantee the food will be on our tables if they have a shortage at home? Quite simply, we can&#8217;t!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that is not the whole story. Even if we own our land and a rich country runs short of food and has more money to purchase our food than we do, how do we keep food on our tables?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While I am all for keeping government incompetence as much out of our daily lives as possible, accomplishing food security in times as I have outlined is not easy without government intervention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Part of the answer to the above is to have as much land arable as possible (while also maintaining an adequate size of our bush land for non-human use) and be able to ramp up food production as quickly as possible to meet our own and others&#8217; needs. This requires intelligent forthought and planning, charateristics either sadly lacking in our politicians or grossly subordinated to vested interests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just for the record, I don&#8217;t differentiate between the Chinese, the POMs, the Yanks or the Martians! If it is Australia it should be Australian owned, National sovereignty is not a guarantee of food security but if our land is owned by others, how can we guarantee the food will be on our tables if &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=29863\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ban Foreign Ownership&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29865,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29863\/revisions\/29865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}