@wealth4life

19.33% was a great time to have no debt hey!~ 

Where abouts have those sales to Chinese buyers occured?  you got access to any data on that..

There is a lot of good economic commentary about the foriegn ownership laws and how they've been placed to support housing prices, while credit became restricted.  Ala, the chinese playing their part to sustain our property growth rate.  But they suggest the data is hard to determine, ie. the impact is pretty flaky.  Here's a good light read referring to this..

http://www.domain.com.au/Public/Article.aspx?id=1266687095046&index=NationalIndex&headline=Australia++39;s%20mortgage%20debt%20blow-out