This report warns that many of Aotearoa New Zealand's mounting infrastructure challenges stem from a preventable lack of basic upkeep of assets. It calls for fundamental changes, including ring-fencing renewal funding, increasing transparency and ensuring infrastructure investment decisions consider full asset lifecycles rather than just upfront costs.

The budget outlines the Victorian Government's fiscal policy, infrastructure investment and economic outlook. Measures focus on cost-of-living help and more investment in frontline services. It continues a commitment to drive down spend on inefficient and non‑priority programs, and will deliver an operating surplus in the budget year for the first time since before the pandemic.

In 2032 Queensland will host the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Brisbane and beyond. The 2032 Delivery plan is an infrastructure plan designed to benefit the greatest number of Queenslanders as possible while delivering a successful Games. It identifies the infrastructure and venues required for the Games and provides a 20-year plan for Queensland tourism.

This paper highlights the importance of treating digital technologies as infrastructure to avoid fragmentation, duplication and costly inefficiencies. It proposes a public value measurement framework for digital infrastructure and identifies four key policy implications.

Evidence shows that services delivered by Aboriginal Community-Controlled Organisations (ACCOs) have a 50% greater impact than if those same interventions were delivered through mainstream health services. This research report finds ACCOs could do much more if their infrastructure worked and recommends the Victorian Government act now to fund urgent repairs to make ACCO buildings safe...