The Carroll Labor Government and Malinauskas Labor Government are working together to ensure a safer, more efficient freight network to deliver agriculture goods, critical minerals and plantation timber.
The refreshed Green Triangle Freight Action Plan will support infrastructure upgrades to the freight network, helping to create new jobs, business opportunities and investment into regional communities.
The 2026 Plan refresh looks ahead five years, supporting long-term planning that gives industries certainty.
The Green Triangle is a major forestry region in south-west Victoria and south-east South Australia that supplies large volumes of plantation hardwood and softwood timber for new housing and infrastructure projects.
New and emerging industries will generate significant freight growth in the region over the next five to ten years, including renewable energy, mineral sands, and critical minerals.
This also includes growth in agricultural products, including grain, dairy and fertilisers, further highlighting the region’s role in the national economy.
The Green Triangle Freight Action Plan was created in 2009 to support ongoing investment in freight routes across the region, ensuring supply chains are efficient and support community, business and the introduction of new, modern heavy vehicles.
Labor has a proven track record of investing in rail freight and support regional industries.
To read the Green Triangle Freight Action Plan, visit sa.gov.au.
Quote attributable to Victorian Minister for Ports and Freight Melissa Horne
“The Green Triangle is a nationally significant freight and industry region, and we are planning its future to keep creating regional jobs.”
Quotes attributable to South Australian Minister for Infrastructure and Transport Szakacs
“We’re proud to be working collaboratively with the Carroll Labor Government to deliver long-term outcomes that benefit industry and workers in the Green Triangle, and both of our states more broadly. The refreshed plan and consultation feedback will support the Limestone Coast Area planning study which will commence in early 2027.”
Quotes attributable to Member for Western Victoria Jacinta Ermacora
“Labor always invests in regional communities and jobs, they are at risk from a One Nation – Liberal coalition.”
Quote attributable to Victorian Cross Border Commissioner Brett Davis
“This Plan will guide the next phase of cross-border cooperation for the Green Triangle region, which is an important economic zone for Victoria and South Australia, especially the border communities who live, work, operate businesses and invest here.”