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High-Speed Rail (HSR) connecting the east coast capital cities “has the potential to be a game-changer, transforming the way Australians live, work and take holidays,” said Federal Transport Minister Anthony Albanese, but it wouldn’t be ready for another 50 years. “It also has the capacity to better integrate our regional and metropolitan communities, ease congestion [...]
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The Transport Workers’ Union (TWU) has released what it calls alarming new evidence from a survey of more than 950 truck drivers across the country that graphically highlights the pressures in Australia’s most dangerous industry and points the finger squarely at big retailers like Coles. TWU national secretary was speaking on the publication of the [...]
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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has issued a decision allowing the Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) to include the Southern Sydney Freight Line in its Interstate Access Undertaking. This means that negotiations between ARTC and parties wanting to run trains on the Southern Sydney Freight Line will be supported by the processes and principles [...]
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Australians are being urged to help set a new world record for the most e-waste collected for recycling between 20 and 28 April 2013 to tackle what is thought to be the nation’s fastest growing waste problem. TechCollect, a new recycling program for old computers, printers and televisions, is driving this free recycling initiative to [...]
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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has issued a final decision to authorise a national Tyre Stewardship Scheme for five years. The aim of the scheme is to reduce the amount of used tyres entering landfill, being illegally dumped or exported overseas. The Australian Tyre Industry Council (ATIC) applied for authorisation of the proposed scheme, [...]
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Will $4 billion be allocated in the federal budget for upgrading the Northern Sydney Freight Corridor to carry more freight by rail?
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The government should make an election commitment not to extend the carbon tax to trucking, the chairman of the Australian Trucking Association David Simon said in a televised address at the National Press Club. “In its Clean Energy Package, the government announced that the fuel used by the trucking industry would not be subject to [...]
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The Federal Opposition leader has demonstrated that he simply does not understand public transport, says the Australasian Railways Association. “Comments today that an incoming Abbott Government would cut all urban rail funding should send shivers down the spine of commuters everywhere,” Australasian Railway Association (ARA) CEO Bryan Nye said. Over the last decade, public transport [...]
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Victorian premier Denis Napthine has released $110 million towards the Port of Hastings development. Visiting Hastings with Minister for Ports David Hodgett, Dr Napthine said the money reaffirmed the Victorian Government’s belief in the port. “Decisive action is being taken to build a second Victorian container port and ensure this State remains the freight and [...]
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The existing road funding and planning system is broken, despite the serious efforts of the Australian Government to fix it, the chairman of the Australian Trucking Association, David Simon, said today. Mr Simon was launching an independent report by PricewaterhouseCoopers into the road planning, funding and charging system. In a televised address to the National [...]
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