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This issues paper released by the Infrastructure Finance Working Group aims to identify barriers to attracting infrastructure finance and develop options to encourage greater private sector investment.

Infrastructure Australia's report to the Council of Australian Governments, Communicating the Imperative for Action, outlines the areas that Infrastructure Australia will focus its efforts in over four-year period following the release of the report. The report discusses issues affecting cities, water, energy, freight, broadband and Indigenous infrastructure.

This study presents a high-level analysis of the evidence on Australian and international infrastructure construction costs. Available data was examined to see if the increase in infrastructure construction costs is higher than the general level of inflation and, if so, whether a similar trend has occurred in comparable countries.

This article by infrastructure investment analyst Robert Bain suggests that we may need to reassess the credit quality of UK public–private partnerships.

This research report by Infrastructure Association of Queensland and Bond University presents findings from a survey of alternative financing mechanisms for public–private partnerships (PPPs).

This report describes the strategies used by governments in Australia, Chile, and South Africa to manage contingent liability in public–private partnership projects. It discusses whether other governments, including those with less administrative capacity, should adopt similar practices.

by reviewing current planning and development approvals processes in all Australian jurisdictions.

This report discusses Infrastructure Australia's methodology for prioritising key infrastructure projects of national significance and lists the priority projects that Infrastructure Australia has identified as a result of applying this methodology. The report sets out the seven-step analytical framework that Infrastructure Australia uses to guide its decision making on project significance.

This article discusses how traffic and revenue projections in investor financed toll road project bids can be overinflated and how investors can be alert to these overinflated projections.

This paper, prepared by the UK National Audit Office for the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee Inquiry on Private Finance, examines the use of private finance in the delivery public service delivery.