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Inevitability about automation

BRENDAN RICHARDS is a partner and the national sector leader in transport and logistics at business services firm KPMG.

Much has been written about autonomous vehicles as a threat to the Australian transport industry – how they will take thousands of jobs out of the sector and lead to the death of truck driving as a profession.

At the same time, much has been written about the benefits of

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