Subscribe to RSS feedThe modal rort and what it costs us
by
Henning Christiansen*
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last modified
Jul 30, 2009 05:16 PM
ALL THREE domestic freight modes of road, rail and shipping are subject to Australian laws and paying Australian tax. And they compete with each other for domestic freight within Australia.
Yet domestic shipping receives virtually no federal funding while domestic road and rail is heavily subsidised.
A media release from transport minister Anthony Albanese on April 26 declared the “biggest ever federal investment...” of $26.4bn in a six-year road...
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