The new year will end an emergency change to foreign investment rules,prompting calls from Labor for the system to be made more free of government intervention
Technology companies are worried the proposed changes to Australia's foreign investment rules could jeopardise their access to funding.
The Morrison government risks a clash with trading partners over the national security measures.
Cromwell faces D-Day on Friday when its agitator shareholder and unwanted suitor ARA makes its third play for board positions.
The company said it was clear that the deal was unlikely to win approval from Australian regulators.
The United States has declared it is Australia's most important economic partner as it reinforces the benefits of the relationship between the two countries amid escalating tensions with China.
And the call by big business to lower the company tax rate to attract or keep foreign investment is just a try-on.
Ground-breaking research by the Productivity Commission suggests tighter foreign investment rules would cost households up to $731 a year.
Chinese buyer enquiries for Australian homes fell to their lowest in almost three years in May,suggesting multibillion-dollar housing demand could be another casualty of a diplomatic spat between the two countries.
Chinese investment in Australia has fallen to its lowest level in a decade,but Labor says superannuation funds could take the place of foreign investors.
Cromwell was until recently a boring property trust that owned rather unglamorous properties in Canberra with government tenants. But it's now growing very suspicious about its Chinese-backed Singapore investors.