Airports
Policy report
Aviation White Paper
This white paper sets out the government’s long-term policy vision to deliver a safe, competitive, sustainable, productive and efficient Australian aviation sector out to 2050. The paper has a focus on maintaining reliable regional air services at accessible prices while ensuring the responsible use of taxpayers’ money and proposes to reduce barriers to competition, making...
Discussion paper
Aviation green paper: towards 2050
The Australian government released this green paper in September 2023, and called on stakeholders to provide feedback by 30 November 2023. The paper is an important step in developing an Aviation white paper that sets the policy direction for the aviation sector out to 2050.
Report
The planning, construction and management of the Western Sydney Airport project
This inquiry report finds that the purchase of the Leppington Triangle land for the Western Sydney Airport project has breached the social contract between the Commonwealth and the public, by not providing any clear value for money and by creating arbitrary differences between landholders with varying degrees of access to decision-makers.
Report
Baggage claim: the regional impact of Heathrow's third runway
In this report, the authors focus on the distribution of the expected impacts of building a third runway at Heathrow to answer the question who pays?
Report
Economic regulation of airports
This report examines whether current regulatory arrangements constrain the ability of airport operators to exercise their market power over passengers and airlines through unduly high charges, poor service quality, or both.