Speeches

Infrastructure Australia Chief Executive Philip Davies addressed the Australasian Railway Association—Rail Freight Conference on 17 August 2017. His speech outlines the substantial growth in the national freight task over the coming decades and the opportunities presented by the booming economies of China and South-East Asia. He also discusses the importance of a wider national and international, freight and supply market perspective and the need to move away from short to medium term thinking. In addition, Mr Davies outlines the benefits of a national freight strategy, scenario planning and the value in extracting great efficiency from our current road and rail networks.

Infrastructure Australia Chief Executive Philip Davies addressed the Economic Society of Australia on 21 July 2017. His speech, Foundations for Wellbeing, explains why improving the quality of business cases, demonstrating strategic alignment, and transparency and evidence-based analysis is relevant to economic wellbeing, and how this approach can get governments closer to their desired outcomes.

Infrastructure Australia Chief Executive Philip Davies addressed the Developing Northern Australia Conference 2017 on 20 June 2017. His speech outlines the potential to capitalise on Northern Australia’s existing economic assets, and deliver more efficient transport, water, energy and communications services to support the region’s future growth and prosperity. He also discusses the importance of long-term planning, evidence-based project selection and the maintenance of existing assets to enhance the resilience of Northern Australia’s infrastructure.

Infrastructure Australia Chief Executive Philip Davies addressed the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Better Cities on 13 June 2017. His speech outlines the key findings from Infrastructure Australia’s new report, Improving Public Transport: Customer Focused Franchising. He also discusses the importance of long-term, integrated land use planning and the need for additional investment to make better use of existing infrastructure.

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

Acknowledging that public transport is the responsibility of state and territory governments, he argues that there is an important role for the Federal Government to play in encouraging these governments to embark upon public transport reform under the Customer Focused Franchising model.

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.