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ALC Newsletter UPDATE: September 2025

Year:
2025
Type:
Publication, newsletter
Topic:
Newsletter
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Submission: 2025 Core Skills Occupations List (CSOL)

Year:
2025
Type:
Submissions
Topic:
Skills, Wayfinder, Workforce
The Australian Logistics Council’s submission on the 2025 Core Skills Occupation List (CSOL) highlights urgent workforce shortages across freight transport, warehousing, infrastructure, and emerging technology roles. ALC calls for the inclusion of critical occupations such as heavy vehicle drivers, mechanics, rail operators, warehouse technicians, and new specialist roles in automation, robotics, AI, and EV maintenance. The submission stresses that without action, shortages will constrain productivity, weaken supply chain...

Media Release: ALC Welcomes $1.1B Investment

Year:
2025
Type:
Media Releases
Topic:
Media
...

Submission: Interim Report on Creating a More Dynamic and Resilient Economy

Year:
2025
Type:
Submissions
Topic:
Advocacy, Budget, Critical Infrastructure, Efficiency, Freight, Productivity, Resilience
The Australian Logistics Council’s submission to the Productivity Commission’s Interim Report: Creating a More Dynamic and Resilient Economy calls for urgent regulatory reform to remove inefficiencies that undermine freight productivity, increase costs, and constrain investment. It highlights the need to harmonise heavy vehicle rules, streamline fragmented rail access arrangements, cut duplicative planning approvals, and improve cross-jurisdictional workforce mobility. ALC supports setting statutory approval timeframes, embedding...

Submission: Interim Report on Investing in Cheaper, Cleaner Energy and the Net Zero Transformation

Year:
2025
Type:
Submissions
Topic:
Emissions Reduction, Modal Shift, Productivity, Sustainability, Resilience
The Australian Logistics Council’s submission to the Productivity Commission’s Interim Report: Investing in Cheaper, Cleaner Energy and the Net Zero Transformation highlights the critical role of freight and logistics in achieving Australia’s net zero goals. It urges the Commission to embed freight-specific needs across energy, decarbonisation, and resilience reforms—emphasising competitive neutrality between modes, early investment in charging and refuelling corridors, targeted incentives for heavy vehicles, and inclusion of...

Submission: Interim Report on Building a Skilled and Adaptable Workforce

Year:
2015
Type:
Submissions
Topic:
Productivity, Workforce
The Australian Logistics Council lodged a submission to the Productivity Commission’s inquiry into building a skilled and adaptable workforce, highlighting the critical omission of the freight, logistics, and supply chain sector from the Interim Report despite its $150 billion contribution to GDP and severe workforce shortages. Building on ALC’s June 2025 workforce submission, the updated paper calls for freight and logistics to be explicitly prioritised in the final report through a coordinated National Workforce Strategy, a National Logistics...

ALC Newsletter UPDATE: August 2025

Year:
2025
Type:
newsletter
Topic:
Newsletter
...

Media Release: Supply Chain Award Winners

Year:
2025
Type:
Media Releases, Publication
Topic:
Media
...

Submission: Productivity Commission’s Interim Report on National Competition Analysis 2025

Year:
2025
Type:
Submissions
Topic:
Efficiency, Emissions Reduction, Freight, Modal Shift, NFSCS, Planning, Productivity, Sustainability, Skills
The Australian Logistics Council has responded to the Productivity Commission’s Interim Report on National Competition Policy 2025, welcoming its focus on regulatory consistency but highlighting key gaps. The submission warns that the omission of freight-specific operational and digital standards from the Commission’s modelling, the exclusion of heavy vehicle driver licensing from occupational licensing reform, and the absence of freight and logistics from the workforce inquiry represent missed opportunities to strengthen a sector vital to the...

ALC Newsletter UPDATE: July 2025

Year:
2025
Type:
newsletter
Topic:
Newsletter
...
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