{"id":642487,"date":"2026-05-01T10:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/642487\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T10:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:12:08","slug":"chinese-firm-landbridge-launches-legal-fight-with-australia-over-darwin-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/642487\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese firm Landbridge launches legal fight with Australia over Darwin Port"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese firm that owns Darwin Port has launched legal action against Australia in an international tribunal, as it fights the Albanese government\u2019s plan to revoke its lease on national security grounds.<\/p>\n<p>During the last election campaign, both Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and then-opposition leader Peter Dutton promised to strip the port from Chinese-owned Landbridge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/link\/follow-20180101-p5lpec\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">and bring it back into Australian hands<\/a>, either by assuming public ownership or having superannuation funds buy it.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chinese firm that owns Darwin Port has launched legal action against Australia in an international tribunal, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-642487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}