Robb: Australia a China safe haven

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I know it’s the job of pollies to prop up confidence when things turn a little rocky but let’s at least keep the comments credible, from Andrew Robb:

“Everyone has been anticipating some sort of correction up here so I don’t think it’s a surprise now that it’s happened,” he told Hong Kong radio station RTHK on Wednesday morning.

“What I think will happen out of this correction is that even more money will be looking for a safe haven in Australia,” he said.

“My expectation is that this will accelerate the level of investment inquiries coming into Australia across all sorts of areas of activity.

In tourism, sure. Everything else forgedaboudit. The dollar isn’t falling because capital is piling in, Andrew.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.