Labor tipped to step up Darwin Port sale after PM's China visit
Industry players say there had been a bureaucratic go-slow over making the port's owner, Landbridge, divest the asset despite Anthony Albanese and the Coalition promising in April during the election campaign to bring the port back into Australian hands.
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