Infrastructure Australia is an independent statutory body with a mandate to prioritise and progress nationally significant infrastructure. We provide independent research and advice to all levels of government as well as investors and owners of infrastructure.
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Australian Infrastructure Audit 2015
The Australian Infrastructure Audit takes a strategic approach to assessing our nation's infrastructure needs. It examines the drivers of future infrastructure demand, particularly population and economic growth.
Australian Infrastructure Audit 2015—Supplementary Reports
Infrastructure Australia commissioned a number of reports to add to the information available for developing the 2015 Australian Infrastructure Audit. These reports are provided below.
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Northern Australia Audit—Infrastructure for a Developing North
The Northern Australia Audit identifies the key challenges and critical infrastructure requirements for Northern Australia across the transport, water, energy and communications sectors.
IAQ and Bond University: A survey of alternative financing mechanisms for PPPs, 2009
This research report by Infrastructure Association of Queensland and Bond University presents findings from a survey of alternative financing mechanisms for public–private partnerships (PPPs).
Managing contingent liabilities in PPPs - Australia, Chile and South Africa
This report describes the strategies used by governments in Australia, Chile, and South Africa to manage contingent liability in public–private partnership projects. It discusses whether other governments, including those with less administrative capacity, should adopt similar practices.
Building Australia Fund Evaluation Criteria
by reviewing current planning and development approvals processes in all Australian jurisdictions.
National Infrastructure Priorities: Infrastructure for an economically, socially and environmentally sustainable future
This report discusses Infrastructure Australia's methodology for prioritising key infrastructure projects of national significance and lists the priority projects that Infrastructure Australia has identified as a result of applying this methodology. The report sets out the seven-step analytical framework that Infrastructure Australia uses to guide its decision making on project significance.
Robert Bain: Toll forecasts: Big numbers win prizes, 2009
This article discusses how traffic and revenue projections in investor financed toll road project bids can be overinflated and how investors can be alert to these overinflated projections.
UK National Audit Office: Private Finance Projects, 2009
This paper, prepared by the UK National Audit Office for the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee Inquiry on Private Finance, examines the use of private finance in the delivery public service delivery.
UK National Audit Office: Performance of PFI Construction, 2009
This review by the UK National Audit Office examines the performance of private finance initiative construction — in particular, whether Private Finance Initiative (PFI) projects deliver to expected time, price and quality.