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Sovereign capacity has become one of those phrases that gets thrown around in policy papers, ministerial speeches, and industry conferences. Everyone agrees Australia needs more of it. Fewer people are willing to sit down and answer the harder question, which is what sovereign capacity actually looks like when you walk into a workshop on a…

If you’ve driven down the Hume on a weekday, you’ve seen Australia’s diesel supply chain in action. Tankers, prime movers, fuel haulage rigs, and the trucks that depend on the diesel those tankers are delivering. The whole thing is constantly moving, and most people never give it a second thought. They probably should. The eastern…

  Most recruiters stumble into their recruitment career. They land in it by accident and stay because it gets its hooks into them, and then they spend the next decade or two trying to explain to people at dinner parties why they find it so genuinely interesting. That is roughly the story Tavis Shearer and…