Infrastructure Australia’s latest report got lost in the tax debate this week, writes Tim Colebatch. It deserves a closer look It’s called the Australian Infrastructure Plan, but it really isn’t one. The report released on Wednesday by Infrastructure Australia, the little engine of whom we expect so much, reveals that it has had time to...

Transport mobility is important in defining the population’s accessibility to services and facilities. Few studies have investigated the relationship between geographical accessibility of urban services for the population living in residential areas and socio-economic parameters. In this paper, the distribution of residential parcels is analysed from a rarely explored angle—that is, its location in relation...

The first Australian Infrastructure Plan provides a positive reform and investment roadmap for Australia. The plan sets out the infrastructure challenges and opportunities Australia faces over the next fifteen years and the solutions required to drive productivity growth, maintain and enhance our standard of living, and ensures our cities remain world class. Our plan sets...

Presents the infrastructure challenges and opportunities Australia faces over the next 15 years and the solutions required.

The quality of people’s lives - their incomes, their work-life balance, their health, the environment in which they live, and their access to opportunities, can be broadly categorised into economic, social and environmental dimensions. Of course these aspects are intertwined and are not separate silos. There are broad trends and influences which shape the economic...