Merchant fleet size leaves us vulnerable

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By Peter Court*

Australia’s ports may be busy, but we have no way of ensuring that ships will keep coming to them in wartime. In an age of contested supply chains, strategic competition and rising instability, this absence of Australian shipping capacity poses one of the country’s most underappreciated national security risks. (From The Strategist. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute.)

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