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But to answer your question, because the United States was part of the first British Empire and not part of the second British Empire means that it was not invited to join the British Commonwealth which was later renamed Commonwealth of Nations. The US, OTOH, became independent in 1776 following a war.
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Known as the “British Commonwealth”, the original members were the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Irish Free State, and Newfoundland….Current members.
Country | Canada |
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First Joined | 19 November 1926 |
Region | Northern America |
Population | 37,653,350 |
System of government | Federal Commonwealth realm |
There are 15 Commonwealth Realms in addition to the UK.
Queen Elizabeth II is also the Sovereign of 15 countries in the Commonwealth of Nations: Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, the Solomon Islands, and Tuvalu.
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The final constitutional ties between the United Kingdom and Australia ended in 1986 with the passing of the Australia Act 1986. Due to Australia’s history as a colony of Britain, the two nations retain significant shared threads of cultural heritage, many of which are common to all English-speaking countries.
Nope. Australia the nation will pay any duties due on exports to the UK, but this revenue belongs to the Government in Parliament and not the Queen.
Canada is the top foreign buyer of prime Australian agricultural land followed by China and the United States. Source: iStock. THIRD-GENERATION Condobolin farmer Peter Stuckey had just leased land 80km south of his broadacre cropping farm, when the farm next door hit the market.
The Northern Territory government leased the Port of Darwin to the Chinese company Landbridge for A$506 million (US$302 million at today’s exchange rates) in 2015. Aside from being a commercial port, it is also a base for Australian defence forces as well as US marines.
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China now owns key ports, mines, agricultural land, dairy processors, valuable real estate, state-sponsored schools, plus water and energy companies.
In contrast, China is the ninth-largest foreign investor, with 2 per cent of the total $3.8 trillion that was invested in Australia at the end of 2019 by foreign entities.
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Aggregating total freehold and leasehold foreign ownership interests, China and the UK hold the largest area of total Australian agricultural land (each with 2.4 per cent), followed by the Netherlands (0.7 per cent) and the US (0.6 per cent).
CHINESE investors have continued to be the largest foreign entities with an interest (leasehold and freehold) in Australian farmland for a second consecutive year. They increased their investments by 0.5 per cent, bringing Chinese interests’ total area of Australian agricultural land to 9,199,000 hectares or 2.4pc.
Further putting the recent falls in perspective, FIRB data shows buyers from mainland China purchased $113.2 billion worth of Australian residential and commercial property in the decade to the 2018-19, accounting for 19.3 per cent of all foreign asset purchases.
The Federal Government’s Register of Foreign Ownership of Water Entitlements, which was released in March, shows 10.4% of Australia’s total water entitlements, or 4035 GL, have a level of foreign ownership. Both the US and China have 1.9% of the total water entitlement, followed by the UK with 1.1%.
Unibale Pty Ltd is listed as an Australian subsidiary of the state-owned COFCO Corporation, one of China’s major agriculture companies. Unibale Pty Ltd owns more than 7,000 megalitres of water entitlements in the Gwydir River system in the northern end of the Murry-Darling Basin in New South Wales.
It was a reminder that many Australian pantry staples are foreign-owned despite their Aussie roots.
But the current government halted this process in 2015. Now, the government buys water through direct negotiation with water-entitlement holders. The government justified ending open-tender buybacks on the basis that the water being secured was causing undue harm to rural and regional communities.
In 2015, the NT government signed the $506 million agreement with Landbridge, giving the Chinese company total operational control of the port and 80 per cent of ownership of the land and facilities of East Arm wharf including the marine supply base.