Our recommendation to deliver long-term infrastructure plans in every state and territory is complete.
In addition, long-term planning and community engagement is now well-embedded within Australian governments.
The formation of dedicated infrastructure bodies in each state and territory has fundamentally progressed reform and provided a strategic focus for infrastructure planning and project evaluation.
There has also been considerable activity in developing and using infrastructure planning and development assessment frameworks. While this has led to overall improvements in transparency, clarity around delivering against commitments in published plans remains patchy.
The area of reform where there has been most progress is the recommendation that infrastructure investment should respond to the needs of regional communities. So far, progress has focused on economic development that activates regions rather than on delivering affordable infrastructure.