The Australian Logistics Council (ALC) has made a submission to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) on the Occupation Standard Classification for Australia (OSCA) 2027 update, calling for improved recognition of the operational complexity, skill intensity and emerging roles across Australia’s supply chain and freight logistics sector. The submission highlights gaps in current classifications, including the underrepresentation of critical occupations and the absence of emerging roles in areas such as automation, digital logistics,...
The Australian Logistics Council provided input to the Australian Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water on the treatment of energy crops within the Product Guarantee of Origin (PGO) scheme. ALC supports a transparent, non-prescriptive certification framework to underpin investment in low-emissions fuels for hard-to-abate freight and logistics sectors. ALC recommends maintaining flexibility in feedstock eligibility, adopting a staged approach to incorporating broader lifecycle emissions (beyond farm gate), and implementing...
The Australian Logistics Council (ALC) has welcomed the Australian Government’s move to strengthen domestic fuel security, highlighting the importance of maintaining local refining capability amid ongoing global supply chain pressures. The changes to the Fuel Security Services Payment are expected to provide greater certainty for refiners and support continued domestic production, helping ensure fuel availability in the near term. ALC emphasises that fuel security must be addressed across the entire supply chain—from production through to...
The Australian Logistics Council (ALC) has welcomed the Federal Government’s decision to establish a National Fuel Supply Taskforce, highlighting the critical role fuel plays in keeping Australia’s supply chains moving. With diesel underpinning freight and logistics nationwide, recent global disruptions—particularly escalating conflict in the Middle East—have placed significant pressure on supply, costs, and network capacity. ALC says the taskforce is a timely step toward stronger coordination between government and industry, while also...
The Australian Logistics Council provided a submission to the NSW Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure on the Draft Statewide Policy for Industrial Lands. The submission supports the development of a statewide industrial land framework but highlights that industrial precincts function as critical freight infrastructure underpinning port operations, rail freight, fuel supply chains and last-mile distribution. ALC notes that industrial land supply across metropolitan Sydney remains highly constrained, with limited serviced and...
The Australian Logistics Council provided a submission to the Queensland Department of State Development, Infrastructure and Planning on the Draft South East Queensland Regional Industrial Lands Strategy. The submission supports the Strategy’s objective of securing long-term industrial land supply but emphasises that freight outcomes rely on serviced land, infrastructure sequencing, and network integration—not zoning alone. ALC highlights that only around 20 per cent of zoned industrial land is development-ready, with freight-suitable supply...
The Australian Logistics Council provided a submission to the Department of Home Affairs on the proposed enhancements to the Critical Infrastructure Risk Management Program Rules. The submission supports strengthening critical infrastructure security but stresses that freight operations are highly interdependent, multi-operator environments with long-lived, capital-intensive assets, complex operational technology and information technology systems, and constrained workforce capacity, particularly in cyber and specialised engineering roles. The...