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Instead of putting more massive trucks on our roads, we need to invest in our rail network

  • Written by: Philip Laird, Honorary Principal Fellow, University of Wollongong
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In recent years, the Victoria and New South Wales governments have both unveiled strategies to move more freight across the country by rail and ease the increasing pressure of goods moving through the two largest container ports.

The reality is, however, the numbers of containers coming and going by rail to the Port of Melbourne and...

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