Infrastructure Australia released the latest edition of the Infrastructure Priority List, presenting 147 infrastructure proposals of national significance – the largest number since the list’s inception. Headlining this year’s resilience-focused planning and investment guidebook, are five new High Priority National initiatives covering water, the nation’s rapidly growing waste problem, coastal inundation, and road maintenance.

Infrastructure Australia has specifically identified a new High Priority Initiative for a National water strategy well as a new Town and city water security High Priority Initiative. Regional Australia also emerged as a focus of this edition of the Infrastructure Priority List with a call to improve mobile telecommunications coverage in remote areas and improve regional road safety.

The latest edition of the Priority List identifies a project pipeline worth more than AUD 58 billion (US$ 38.11 billion) – including 6 New High Priority Projects and 17 New Priority Projects. The Priority List is a collaborative document, developed using data from the 2019 Australian Infrastructure Audit and submissions from all levels of governments, industry and the community. This included more than 200 submissions in the last 12 months alone.