By Peter Jones*
Earlier this year the Australian Naval Institute (ANI) and the Naval Studies Group at the University of New South Wales (Canberra) released a joint report titled: Protecting Australian Maritime Trade. The study was commissioned based on the findings of the 2019 ANI Goldrick Seminar.
Maritime Vulnerabilities
The report concluded that Australia was substantially more dependent today on maritime trade, than any time since the arrival of the Second Fleet to Sydney in 1789. Indeed, the meagre national fuel stocks is one such case in point.
