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Today the Australian Government delivered its official response to our 15-year Australian Infrastructure Plan.

Today Infrastructure Australia published its 2015–16 Annual Report PDF: 2200 KB ReadSpeaker to Parliament, detailing a year of strong delivery against our mandate to guide nationally-significant infrastructure investment and reform.

As we approach the halfway point of 2016, I am pleased to see there has been plenty of ongoing public discussion and debate on the future of Australia's infrastructure. Much of the discussion has centred around the data and recommendations from our Australian Infrastructure Plan and refreshed Infrastructure Priority List, which we released in February this year.

On behalf of the Infrastructure Australia Board, I am proud to publicly release our 15 year Australian Infrastructure Plan. It was formally presented to Prime Minister, the Hon Malcolm Turnbull MP, this morning.

2015 was a landmark year for Infrastructure Australia, and 2016 is shaping up to be just as important.

Infrastructure Australia (IA) was pleased to receive around 100 formal submissions from all levels of government, business, industry, peak bodies and the wider community.

Infrastructure Australia (IA) has had a highly productive year, and we have just tabled our first Annual Report to Parliament.

Thank you to those of you who have already provided feedback on our Australian Infrastructure Audit (the Audit) released on 22 May 2015. The Audit provides the evidence base for the development of Infrastructure Australia's Australian Infrastructure Plan (the Plan). The Plan will address the key challenges raised by the Audit and identify a range of investment and reform priorities to be implemented in the coming 15 years and beyond.

I am pleased to send you my first newsletter as Chief Executive Officer of Infrastructure Australia (IA). I hope to provide you with regular CEO updates on IA's work and issues that might be of interest to you.

In this issue I focus on two major public reports released by Infrastructure Australia, both produced as part of the new mandate we have to audit and prepare 15-year plans for our nation's infrastructure. I also canvass the key deliverables for IA this year, and introduce our inaugural CEO, Philip Davies.