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The Australian Logistics Council’s submission to the National Bioenergy Feedstock Strategy highlights the essential role of freight, logistics, and infrastructure planning in building a successful low-carbon liquid fuels industry. Decarbonising transport through renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel requires integrating feedstock supply chains with multimodal freight networks, storage, blending, and distribution systems. ALC calls for coordinated national action—protecting strategic industrial land near ports, rail hubs, and...

ALC has responded to Transport for NSW’s Roads Act Review Options Paper, supporting reforms that modernise the Act to reflect contemporary road use while ensuring safe, efficient and resilient freight movement. ALC endorses a hybrid model combining Model 2’s integrated, plan-led framework with the digital efficiencies of Model 1 and the governance oversight of Model 3. The submission raises concern that local councils are being given too much control over roads with state or national freight significance, warning this...

The Australian Logistics Council has lodged a submission in response to the Australian Government’s consultation on the proposed design of the Net Zero Fund. The submission sets out how the Fund can most effectively support the decarbonisation of Australia’s freight and logistics sector by addressing high capital costs, long project lead times, and infrastructure and regulatory barriers. ALC recommends a performance-based, system-wide approach that prioritises concessional finance, co-investment, and transitional solutions such as renewable...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Australian Logistics Council has lodged a submission with the Australian Treasury in response to its consultation on Lowering Barriers to the Adoption of International and Overseas Standards in Regulation, as part of broader National Competition Policy reforms. The submission underscores the critical role of freight in supporting national productivity, calling for the adoption of international standards to reduce regulatory duplication, lower costs, and accelerate decarbonisation across supply chains. ALC also raises concerns about...

The Australian Logistics Council has provided a submission to the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water on the Land and Sea Transport Method 2015 Sunsetting Review. The submission strongly supports remaking the method to ensure the freight and logistics sector can actively participate in Australia’s carbon markets and contribute to national emissions reduction goals. The method’s expiry in March 2024 removed the only ERF pathway specifically designed for freight—despite growing demand for credible abatement...