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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.

Today Infrastructure Australia warmly welcomes Colin Murray as our new Chair and Vicki Meyer, Vonette Mead, Amanda Cooper, Dr Vanessa Guthrie AO, Elizabeth Schmidt and Robert Moffat as new Directors to our Board.

In what has been a challenging year across the country, we're proud to publish our 2020-21 Annual Report. Throughout 2020-21, we have been working closely with Australia's governments to guide the COVID-19 investment and reform response.

Infrastructure Australia is proud to publish its first Infrastructure Market Capacity report, forecasting a surge in demand for skills, labour and materials due to the rapid increase in public infrastructure investment.

Infrastructure Australia is proud to publish the 2021 Australian Infrastructure Plan (the 2021 Plan), a practical and actionable roadmap for reform.