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It’s been a huge start to 2023 for Infrastructure Australia, as the process of implementation begins of the Australian Government’s Response to the Infrastructure Australia Independent Review released in December.

In this edition: - Message from our Acting CEO, Adam Copp - Infrastructure Market Capacity 2022 report - Regional Strengths & Infrastructure Gaps report - Business case evaluations - Out and about

I am pleased to share this update with you, on my last day as Chief Executive of Infrastructure Australia. I am incredibly proud of what Infrastructure Australia has achieved over the past three and a half years and I would like to thank the Board our staff and all our stakeholders for your friendship, engagement and support through my time as CEO.

I am pleased to share this update with you, our first since the Albanese Government was elected in May and the Hon Catherine King MP was appointed as Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government.

On behalf of Infrastructure Australia’s Board and staff, I write to share an announcement regarding Romilly Madew AO FTSE who will leave IA at the end of July, after nearly three and a half years as Chief Executive, to take up the role of Chief Executive of Engineers Australia.

Last night’s Federal Budget announced over $29 billion for infrastructure, including an additional $17.9 billion for transport infrastructure, bringing the Infrastructure Investment Program to $120 billion over 10 years.

Today we're proud to publish Delivering Outcomes, an industry reform roadmap to address the long-term challenges facing Australia’s infrastructure sector, including poor productivity, the increasing number of insolvencies and cost overruns and delays in the delivery of major projects.

Today we're proud to publish our Regional Strengths and Infrastructure Gaps report, providing government, industry, businesses and the community with an evidence base to support regional growth, off the back of the COVID-19 pandemic and recent extreme events.

We are moving to a purely digital format for our Infrastructure Priority List. After engaging with more than 100 users from across Australia, we are pleased to share our refreshed and redesigned digital Infrastructure Priority List.

As the year draws to a close, around the country, communities are recovering from, and preparing for, new shocks and stresses, making their infrastructure needs more complex. Tomorrow's infrastructure is likely to look very different to today's, and the way infrastructure is planned needs to embrace this uncertainty.