Speeches

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.

Infrastructure Australia Chief Executive Philip Davies addressed the Australian Logistics Council Forum 2017 in Melbourne on 8 March 2017. Infrastructure Australia Chief Executive Philip Davies addressed the Australian Logistics Council Forum 2017 in Melbourne on 8 March 2017. A key recommendation in the Australian Infrastructure Plan, he argues that a National Freight and Supply Chain Strategy is needed to support growth in the urban freight task, and better equip our freight and supply chain networks to respond to a range of different scenarios that may impact future demand.

Infrastructure Australia Chief Executive Philip Davies addressed the Australia-Canada Infrastructure Symposium in Sydney on 20 February 2017. In this speech, he discusses the role Infrastructure Australia plays in supporting the development of evidence-based infrastructure proposals and in implementing a culture of long-term, integrated land use planning. He also talks about the importance of achieving consensus with Australia’s three levels of government on investment priorities and opportunities for reform, and highlights some of the major projects currently on the Infrastructure Priority List.