DCN May Edition 2019

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May 2019
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EDITORIAL
ISSUE NUMBER 1246 May 2019
From the editor
By the time many of you read this, Australia will be less than two
weeks from the end of a bruising federal election campaign. A week
is a long time in politics but it still seems the likely outcome will be
a change of government.
Logistics and trade have featured in the campaign without being
a central theme, Labor’s Inland Rail inquiry pledge being the most
newsworthy development.
The Coalition has emphasised investment in regional freight
infrastructure (perhaps a nod to the National Party).
Labor, meanwhile, has made the case for revitalising Australian
shipping and the Australian shipping sector. Recent history suggests
the ALP will have its work cut out. But given the 2012 shipping laws
brought in by then federal Minister for Infrastructure Anthony
Albanese remain in place, a Labor federal government would have
reason for believing it could progress its agenda.
On the macro level, the logistics sector needs economic growth,
something no longer to be taken for granted in a volatile world. The
next federal government will need to be nimble on its feet on the
world stage, with Trump and Brexit having turned the free trade
narrative on its head.
Australians want stability. We used to chortle about short-term
and volatile administrations - but no longer. Both governments and
oppositions at federal level have been riven with infighting for the
past decade and coherent policy development has been problematic.
This country and the logistics sector require better of their leaders.
David Sexton
Editor, Daily Cargo News
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