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AN EFFECTIVE FREIGHT STRATEGY IS AN EFFECTIVE ECONOMIC STRATEGY
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hen the National Freight and Supply Chain Strategy (the Strategy) was released less than a year ago, COVID-19 was not on anyone’s radar, much less something around which Australian households and businesses were busily redesigning their day-to-day activities. Yet now, with the pandemic’s curve
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seemingly flattened and government attention turning to how the economic recovery can be hastened, the good news is that a significant amount of work on that front has already been done. We are not starting from scratch, casting about for ideas. Governments merely need to take the words they all signed off on last August and convert
them into meaningful action. Everything that political leaders have talked about as priority areas in the pursuit of economic recovery – enhanced infrastructure, regulatory reform, harmonization, red tape reduction and ensuring the workforce is equipped with the right skills for the future –are explicitly addressed by the Strategy.
