Coordinating the Nation’s Infrastructure Development

‘The BCA has also called for an audit of the nation’s infrastructure needs and has argued that a more disciplined approach is needed to allocating tends of billions of dollars in federal AusLink transport spending.’

From an article regarding the proposed establishment of a national advisory body, Infrastructure Australia, titled ‘Support for Improved Co-Ordination’, by Annabel Hepworth, The Australian Financial Review, 22 January 2008, p. 6.

Kevin Rudd told his federal Cabinet colleagues in Perth last Monday that the creation of Infrastructure Australia could be the most important move in Commonwealth–state relations since federation. What the Prime Minister highlighted was the potential of the new organisation to drive infrastructure planning to overcome what the Business Council of Australia has described as the infrastructure deficit.

From ‘Rudd’s Big Hopes for Infrastructure Blueprint’ by Nigel Wilson, The Australian, 28 January 2008, p. 30.

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