Draft State Infrastructure Strategy

To date, the COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare our vulnerabilities, escalating the skills shortage, tightening the intense competition for skills in a finite Australian labour market and constraining our capacity to invest in new or existing infrastructure. As we continue to live with the uncertainty of COVID-19 and its emerging variants, there should be discipline and vigilance on infrastructure prioritisation and funding, ensuring better value for money outcomes. Recovery should focus on building resilience, facilitating business investment and job-led sustaining growth. Therefore, it is pleasing to see Infrastructure WA work alongside Infrastructure Australia to develop a framework of ten common principles for an infrastructure recovery response.