Speeches
Infrastructure Australia regularly updates our stakeholders across governments, industry and the community through our newsletters, media releases, speeches and presentations.
Use this page to navigate our past speeches including keynotes and presentations from our Chair, CEO, and executive team.
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Infrastructure Australia CEO Romilly Madew AO gave the keynote address at the second National Community Engagement for Infrastructure Forum, held in Sydney on Thursday, 22 August 2019. Her remarks focused on the Infrastructure Australia's agenda for community engagement and consultation around infrastructure projects, and highlighted the community-centred approach of the Australian Infrastructure Audit 2019.
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Infrastructure Australia CEO Romilly Madew AO gave a keynote speech at the Asset Management for Critical Infrastructure event in Sydney on Wednesday, 21 August 2019. Her remarks focused on the need for comprehensive resilience strategies, amid the unprecedented risks Australia’s infrastructure assets and networks face from changes in technology, a transitioning economy, evolving user preferences and climate change.
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This speech was given by CEO, Philip Davies, at the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Better Cities. He discusses the future challenges for infrastructure in Australia's cities.
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This speech was given by Chairman Mark Birrell at the Australian Financial Review National Infrastructure Summit on 11 June 2015. He calls for Australia to lift its global ranking for infrastructure by engaging with ten key reform challenges.
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This presentation to the 2011 Bike Futures Conference by Sara Stace of the Department of Transport and Infrastructure discusses the benefits for Australia's cities of encouraging residents to choose active travel (walking or riding) rather than cars.
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This speech to Engineers Australia by Michael Deegan, Infrastructure Coordinator of Infrastructure Australia (the Harricks Address) examines sustainability in infrastructure planning in Australia and Infrastructure Australia's approach to assessing infrastructure projects. It also outlines Infrastructure Australia's work on national policies in key theme areas of ports, roads, rail, water, energy, cities and broadband.
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This speech to the GAMUT International Conference by Michael Deegan, Infrastructure Coordinator at Infrastructure Australia, discusses the role of the Infrastructure Coordinator and the importance of infrastructure development for productivity, especially in supporting the Asian markets. It covers sustainable transport initiatives in other parts of the world.