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Infrastructure Australia regularly updates our stakeholders across governments, industry and the community through newsletters, media releases, speeches and presentations.
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Speech
Infrastructure Australia Chief Executive Romilly Madew addressed the 2019 AFR National Infrastructure Summit in Melbourne. Her speech ‘Access, quality and cost: A community-centred approach to infrastructure planning and delivery’ outlines the major trends impacting infrastructure and previews our forthcoming release, the 2019 Australian Infrastructure Audit.
Speech
Infrastructure Australia Acting CEO Anna Chau addressed the 2019 ARA Light Rail conference in Melbourne on the role of light rail in an integrated transport network. Her remarks focused on the need to improve long-term planning and project selection, and the role light rail can potentially play in accommodating increasing levels of demand.
Media Releases
Infrastructure Australia, the nation's independent infrastructure advisor, has positively assessed the business cases for Melbourne Metro and the ongoing upgrade of the Murray Basin rail network.
Speech
This speech was delivered by Infrastructure Australia Chief Executive Philip Davies at the Ports Australia Centennial Conference in Melbourne on Thursday 20 October 2016.
Outlining some of the key recommendations in the 15-year Australian Infrastructure Plan, he explains the importance of long-term, strategic infrastructure planning to meet the increasing demand for Australia's ports.
He also discusses Infrastructure Australia's proposal for a National Freight and Supply Chain Strategy, and explains why we need a fairer and more sustainable system of funding the landside infrastructure that our ports rely on.
Media Releases
More than 50 infrastructure experts from Australia and overseas will gather in Melbourne this week to discuss infrastructure planning and development in growing cities around the world with a view to developing a best practice model for infrastructure planning in Australia.
Speech
This presentation to the Melbourne Institute 2009 Economic and Social Outlook Conference by Michael Deegan of Infrastructure Australia discusses the role of Infrastructure Australia and the challenges facing major infrastructure in Australia.