China now owns 10 times the amount of Australian land it did last year

By Eryk Bagshaw
Updated October 2 2017 - 9:21am, first published 8:55am
The 705,000-hectare Wollogorang and Wentworth cattle station on the shores of the Gulf of Carpentaria.
The 705,000-hectare Wollogorang and Wentworth cattle station on the shores of the Gulf of Carpentaria.

The amount of Australian farm land owned by Chinese interests has surged tenfold in the past year, climbing above 14 million hectares or 2.5 per cent of all agricultural land.

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