{"id":55,"date":"2018-04-09T20:34:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T19:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2018\/04\/09\/australian-infrastructure-priority-list-published\/"},"modified":"2018-04-09T20:34:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T19:34:00","slug":"australian-infrastructure-priority-list-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/oceania\/australian-infrastructure-priority-list-published\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian infrastructure priority list published"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The independent statutory body provides research and advice on the projects and reforms Australia needs to develop key infrastructure, and it has underlined the need for freight-related investment.<\/p>\n<p>Its 2018 Infrastructure Priority List includes a Sydney Gateway connecting WestConnex (a 33-kilometre predominately underground motorway scheme currently under construction in Sydney) to Port Botany, a duplication of freight rail lines at Port Botany to boost port efficiency, and a dedicated freight rail connection to the Port of Brisbane.<\/p>\n<p>ALC managing director Michael Kilgariff said the release of the priority list comes at a crucial moment, as Australia continues to develop its National Freight and Supply Chain Strategy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecuring investment in these priority projects will be critical in allowing Australia to meet its growing freight task, and driving economic and employment growth,\u201d Mr Kilgariff said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infrastructure Australia has released a priority list for freight infrastructure investment, which includes improved rail links to the ports of Botany and Brisbane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oceania"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}