4.9 The purpose of the profiling assessment was to provide assurance that initiatives met Infrastructure Australia's seven strategic priorities. These were:
• expand Australia's productive capacity;
• increase Australia's productivity;
• diversify Australia's economic capabilities;
• build on Australia's global competitive advantages;
• develop our cities and/or regions;
• reduce greenhouse emissions; and
• improve social equity and quality of life in our cities and our regions.
4.10 Profiling was undertaken as follows:
• proponents self‐assessed their initiative(s) against each of Infrastructure Australia's strategic priorities;
• the self‐assessments were, in turn, reviewed by Office of the Infrastructure Coordinator analysts against internal guidelines for the interpretation of each strategic priority, and the self‐assessed profiles were marked up or down depending on the analyst's assessment;
• the analysts' assessments were moderated by another analyst, both to promote consistency of assessment and to apply scrutiny to the self‐ assessed profile with the objective of adding robustness to the project assessments; and
• the moderated profiles were considered by the Prioritisation Evaluation Committee.