Australia

Question 1

What is the Five Eyes Alliance and what countries are parties to the Alliance?

Answer 1

The Five Eyes (FVEY) is an intelligence alliance comprising

• Australia
• Canada
• New Zealand
• United Kingdom and
• United States.

These countries are parties to the multilateral UKUSA Agreement, a treaty for joint cooperation in signals intelligence.

(The former NSA contractor Edward Snowden described the Five Eyes as a “supra-national intelligence organisation that does not answer to the known laws of its own countries”. Documents leaked by Snowden in 2013 revealed that the FVEY have been spying on one another’s citizens and sharing the collected information with each other in order to circumvent restrictive domestic regulations on surveillance of citizens. In spite of continued controversy over its methods, the Five Eyes relationship remains one of the most comprehensive known espionage alliances in history.)

Question 2

What is the proportion of agricultural land with “a level” of foreign ownership (foreign held).

Answer 2

13.6% at 30 June 2017. (I think this means that the ownership has some portion of foreign ownership involved rather than being out right ownership – the quotation marks around “a level” in the question are mine).

Question 3

Is foreign held agricultural land in Australia held on a freehold or leasehold basis?

Answer 3

Around 80 per cent is held on a leasehold basis.

Question 4

In what form is foreign held agricultural land held within Australian?

Answer 4

Over 98 per cent of foreign held agricultural land is held within Australian incorporated entities.

Question 5

What is foreign held agricultural land in Australia used for?

Answer 5

Over 85 per cent of foreign held agricultural land is used for livestock purposes.

Question 6

What is the proportion of foreign land ownership in Australia?

Answer 6

The United Kingdom remains the largest foreign agricultural land holder. ▪️UK - 2.6 per cent of agricultural land ▪️China - 2.5 per cent of agricultural land ▪️USA - 0.7 per cent of agricultural land).

Question 7

What five countries in order have the highest tourist numbers into Australia?

Answer 7

China - 1,421,500

New Zealand - 1,371,300

USA - 787,600

UK - 742,700

Japan - 442,300

Singapore - 432,700

Malaysia - 393,600

India - 335,000

South Korea - 304,400

Hong Kong - 298,600

Germany - 208,200

Indonesia - 203,800

Canada - 172,900

France - 134,300

Italy - 74,600