Introduction NICTA thanks the Productivity Commission for the opportunity to submit a response to the Public Infrastructure Issues Paper and Draft Report. NICTA understands the importance of productivity enhancing infrastructure development to boost growth and create jobs in the current economic environment: “As the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors in Sydney stated earlier...

The overriding message of this draft report is the need for a comprehensive overhaul of processes in the assessment and development of public infrastructure projects. There are numerous examples of poor value for money arising from inadequate project selection. Without reform, more spending will simply increase the cost to users, taxpayers, the community generally, and...

This report explores the details of the Obama Administration's executive order on cybersecurity, breaking down the challenges, criticisms, and successes of the effort to date, before offering clear lessons from the US experience that can be applied to the Australian context. Summary: On 12 February 2014 the United States National Institute of Standards & Technology...

Many car-dependent cities have major transit projects stuck in financial and economic assessment due to inadequate links between land use, transport, and funding. This has left most urban transport networks underfunded and requiring significant government support. During this widening transit funding gap, there has been an international increase in demand on transit systems, which is...

Analyses the effectiveness of Australia's National Access Regime, which aims to ensure all firms can access essential infrastructure, and examines potential reform options. The National Access Regime is a regulatory framework that provides an avenue for firms to access certain ‘essential’ infrastructure services owned and operated by others, when commercial negotiations on access are unsuccessful...