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Infrastructure Australia Chair Julieanne Alroe, spoke at the Infrastructure Partnerships Australia (IPA) Leaders' Luncheon on 15 June 2018 with Luci Ellis, Assistant Governor (Economic) of the Reserve Bank of Australia. Ms Alroe discussed the findings of the Making Reform Happen advisory paper, on how to implement an incentive-based funding approach to infrastructure reform.

Infrastructure Australia Chair Julieanne Alroe, speaking at the AFR National Infrastructure Summit, launched a new paper, Making Reform Happen: Using incentives to drive a new era of infrastructure reform on 4 June 2018. In her speech, Ms Alroe called on the Australian Government to implement a new incentive-based funding approach to drive nationally significant infrastructure reform.

Infrastructure Australia Executive Director Adrian Dwyer presented at the NRMA Trends and Innovation Series on Funding and Financing in Sydney on 8 November 2017. His speech outlines the initiatives and projects of national significance to Australia’s continued prosperity. Mr Dwyer also discusses the importance of finding more sustainable and equitable ways of funding our national investment priorities and the need to rebalance our system towards a user pays funding model.

Infrastructure Australia Executive Director of Policy and Research, Adrian Dwyer, addressed the Infrastructure Association of Queensland on 29 August 2017. His speech, Managing the Consultation Challenges of Road Reform, stresses that we cannot wait for a crisis before we act on road reform, and explains why early and meaningful engagement with the community on road reform will avoid funding crisis before action is taken.

Infrastructure Australia Chief Executive Philip Davies addressed a CEDA Trustee Dinner in Perth on 7 June 2017. His speech outlines Infrastructure Australia’s investment and reform priorities and explains how transitioning towards a user or beneficiary pays model could help fund Western Australian’s future infrastructure needs.

Infrastructure Australia Chief Executive Philip Davies addressed the 2017 Roads Australia Summit in Sydney on 1 June 2017. His speech, Transport reform: the national opportunity in front of us, explains why in the context of constrained government budgets

New data from Infrastructure Australia shows that subjecting the operation of Australia’s government-operated bus and rail services to competitive tender processes could save Australian taxpayers up to $15.5 billion by 2040, money which could be reinvested into new transport services.

In his address to the 2017 ITS National Electronic Tolling Forum, Infrastructure Australia Chief Executive Philip Davies discusses the transport reform priorities outlined in the 15-year Australian Infrastructure Plan. He discusses the benefits of moving to a fairer approach to road charging where the revenue raised from road users is put back into funding transport infrastructure, as well as the need to invest in data collection and analytics to make better use of existing infrastructure.

Infrastructure Australia Chief Executive Philip Davies addressed the CEDA Transport Infrastructure Series 2017 luncheon in Sydney on 24 March 2017. His speech outlines why we must diversify the pool of funding available for infrastructure investment in Australia and highlights the benefits of transitioning towards a user or beneficiary pays model to fund the infrastructure we need.

Infrastructure Australia Chief Executive Philip Davies addressed the Value Capture in Infrastructure 2017 conference in Sydney on 15 March 2017 on establishing a realistic role for value capture in the infrastructure funding mix. His speech outlines the key findings of the infrastructure Reform Series paper, Capturing value: Advice on making value capture work in Australia and argues that value capture can work in Australia and it should be regularly considered for all public infrastructure projects, but it is important to be realistic about the role it can play.