Takeover: Foreign Investment and the Australian Psyche by Uren, David - 2015-08-26

Melbourne: Black Inc., 2015. Paperback octavo, very good condition. 247 pp. Did the Chiko Roll change Australian history? Yes - efforts by an American company to take over the company making the Roll in the early 1970s marked a turning point in Australian foreign investment policy. This is just one of the strange twists and turns in the buying and selling of Australia. An authoritative, engaging account of the history of foreign investment in Australia. It explores the strange coalitions of left and right protectionists that have sought to insulate us from the world economy. But Australia, alone among nations advanced or emerging, has been able to run deficits with the world throughout our history precisely because foreigners are so keen to invest here.