Coupled with the Dormant charter proposal, cyclone proof Mini Ports capable of handling 2 x 95 meter vessels, should be dotted around the coast at every 50 kilometres to cover all defence and emergency response scenarios. (for context Gujarat in India has a port every 53 kms, UK has a port every 65 kms which help defend it through 2 world wars).
Around northern Australia all the way between Brisbane and Geraldton, stifled by decades of Green ideology and EPA laws of national parks and fish habitats blanketing our coast, we have ports only every 700 kms! Check for yourself, it is a disgrace!
ALP's Premier Palusczuk passed a 620 page "Sustainable Ports Act" immediately she was elected in 2015, in an appeasement to the Greens, to stop any port development in Queensland.
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Crisafulli hasn't shown the same urgency in repealing this nonsense and watches bus and truck crashes on the Bruce highway killing Queenslanders with monotonous regularity. Team Crisafulli ignores the last 8 bipartisan State shipping studies that have been done over the last 30 years unanimously recommending coastal shipping and mini port infrastructures.
Tsunami and cyclone events normally destroy and isolate road access in or out of disaster areas, so mini ports become very strategic in emergency response duties.
Imagine if you will, Border Protection with a Defence fleet being effectively increased by 100% in size without anyone crawling for budget approval!
Logistically a highly mobilised fleet capable of accessing all small ports and unprepared beaches, improves the frontline options for emergency response, border protection and defence as a whole.
Can someone with the vision of Admiral Henderson and a bit of spine make a simple thing like this happen in any nation, big or small, in the north of Australia and the South West Pacific?
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