![]() AFP | Coalition tightening of foreign investment policy a step backwards The Australian WHEN then opposition leader John Howard released his Future Directions policy manifesto in 1988, it included a commitment to abolish the Foreign Investment Review Board. Throughout the 1980s, Labor and the Coalition competed to liberalise Australia's ... Coalition rejects tough farm line Farmers shun more investment scrutiny Coalition silent on whether it would reject more foreign acquisitions of farmland |