Aussies send by road
5th January 1979, Page 40
5th January 1979
Page 40
Page 40, 5th January 1979
— Aussies send by road
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Keywords :
National Accounts, Gross Domestic Product, Australia, Transport, Political Geography, Earth, Bodies Of Water
Even in a country of vast distances, such as Australia, 79 per cent of the tonnage of goods consigned goes by road. According to Thorolf Thoresen, an economist employed by the Australian Road Research Board, hauliers have since 1959-60 made "the largest individual contribution to any single transport made in terms of gross domestic product." On average about 12½ per cent of gross national expenditure has been on transport.
I doubt whether even statistics of this kind will mollify a public that is apparently growing increasingly hostile to lorries.