To inform and ground the development of robust research and policy reflection on infrastructure governance in Australian cities, a systematic literature review was performed to understand the prevailing state of literature.

This research investigates the potential for Australia’s regional areas to attract and sustain population and economic growth, examining whether particular international strategies and Australian models for supporting development have been effective.

In Australia, state and federal based infrastructure agencies require business cases to be developed to demonstrate that public investment decisions about major transport infrastructure projects are an economically efficient use of society’s resources.

In this conference papwer, urban planning strategies that may help to counter inequality producing mechanisms are presented.

Australia has the highest rate of population growth of all the medium and large OECD countries. But urban planning for this growth is often inadequate.