3.4 Infrastructure Australia adopted an overall framework to guide its assessment process. The framework identified that good investment strategy involving problem definition and option development (without, for example, modal prejudices) was crucial to creating a high‐quality list of potential investments that best addressed the nations most pressing infrastructure problems.
3.5 Infrastructure Australia's 'Prioritisation Methodology' was provided to State and Territory Governments, and the ARTC on 23 September 2008.87 The Office of the Infrastructure Coordinator has advised ANAO that the Prioritisation Methodology was uploaded to the Infrastructure Australia website on 26 September 2008. The Infrastructure Australia Council endorsed the methodology in its 1 October 2008 meeting, and it was publicly announced by the then Prime Minister on 7 October 2008.88
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87 It was also provided to the following Commonwealth Departments on 24 September 2008: the Department of Finance and Deregulation; the Department of the Treasury; and the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government.
88 Prime Minister of Australia, Nation-Building for Australia's Future Address to Australian Davos Connection Infrastructure 21 Summit, Sofitel Hotel, Brisbane, 7 October 2008. Prime Minister of Australia and the Hon Anthony Albanese MP, Bringing Transparency to Nation Building, Joint Media Release, 7 October 2008.