{"id":32174,"date":"2016-04-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/dick-smith-slams-pending-kidman-cattle-sale-to-chinese-interest-2\/"},"modified":"2016-04-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T00:00:00","slug":"dick-smith-slams-pending-kidman-cattle-sale-to-chinese-interest-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/dick-smith-slams-pending-kidman-cattle-sale-to-chinese-interest-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dick Smith slams pending Kidman Cattle sale to Chinese interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Aussie entrepreneur Dick Smith has launched an extraordinary attack on the pending sale of the Kidman Cattle empire, saying \u201cthe Chinese must just laugh at our stupidity\u201d.<\/h3>\n<p>Mr Smith told Leon Byner on FIVEAA that he feels \u201csick inside\u201d over the Kidman sale, which is currently pending approval from the Foreign Investment Review Board.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s incredible corruption in China. I\u2019m not saying this deal is anything to do with corruption \u2013 let\u2019s hope it isn\u2019t \u2013 but because of that there\u2019s vast amounts of money available there,\u201d Smith said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe business people there aren\u2019t stupid. If they have to buy their meat from an Australian company, we\u2019ll actually make a profit on it here and tax will be paid on it here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhereas what they can do is own the whole of any of the land they need to grow food on, ship it up to china and make all the profit there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s completely against Australian interest.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>LISTEN TO DICK SMITH HERE:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/259938366&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Smith said he was \u201camazed\u201d the Kidman family would want to sell the cattle empire to anyone overseas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou would think they would want to keep it in Australian hands. They\u2019re going to get all this loot, but they\u2019re going to end up with a country that\u2019s not worth living in because all the money will be overseas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe they\u2019ll all plan to go live in China?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/power-coach-ken-hinkley-backs-his-assistant-coaches\">KEN HINKLEY SHOOTS DOWN PORT ADELAIDE RUMOUR<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/leon-byner\/christopher-pyne-shrugs-off-potential-labor-challenger\">CHRISTOPHER PYNE SHRUGS OFF LABOR CHALLENGER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aussie entrepreneur Dick Smith has launched an extraordinary attack on the pending sale of the Kidman Cattle empire, saying \u201cthe Chinese must just laugh at our stupidity\u201d. Mr Smith told Leon Byner on FIVEAA that he feels \u201csick inside\u201d over the Kidman sale, which is currently pending approval from the Foreign Investment Review Board. \u201cThere\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":18713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-32174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leon-byner","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dick Smith slams pending Kidman Cattle sale to Chinese interest - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/dick-smith-slams-pending-kidman-cattle-sale-to-chinese-interest-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dick Smith slams pending Kidman Cattle sale to Chinese interest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Aussie entrepreneur Dick Smith has launched an extraordinary attack on the pending sale of the Kidman Cattle empire, saying \u201cthe Chinese must just laugh at our stupidity\u201d. 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