Weekly News Video: 7 December

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Packaging News

Pact Group is navigating significant disruption to resin supply, as Middle East conflict and shipping constraints drive shortages, price spikes and rising costs across the packaging value chain.

Calls for sweeping national packaging reform are intensifying with independent MPs Dr Sophie Scamps and Kate Chaney joining the Boomerang Alliance in Canberra today, to press for urgent federal action on plastic waste.

PKN EXCLUSIVE: Australia’s growing dependence on imports is exposing critical weaknesses in its manufacturing base. Drawing parallels with past industry decline, Aleks Lajovic argues that without long-term policy support and a shift in perception, the nation risks losing sovereign capability in essential sectors such as plastics and packaging.