Planning & infrastructure

Infrastructure links goods and services to markets, and people to work and leisure. The accessibility and quality of infrastructure not only shape local firms' investment and employment decisions but also influences a region's attractiveness to interstate and foreign investors.

Victoria’s infrastructure pipeline must remain significant and sustainable to preserve liveability, create jobs and meet our future commercial needs.

Our focus

• Ensure existing major infrastructure projects are delivered on time and on budget. 
• Develop next generation Public Private Partnership (PPP) models that leverage capital and capability available in the private sector to address the demands on existing infrastructure.
• Identify and pursue further opportunities for asset recycling and sustainability.
• Advocate for a fair share of Federal infrastructure funding for Victoria.
• Invest in modernising the energy system, including by building large-scale disaggregated clean energy and storage. This will create jobs, help improve Victoria’s energy security and make a meaningful contribution to lowering carbon emissions.
• Make a sustained investment in Victoria’s waste and recycling industries and infrastructure to develop markets for recycled materials and reduce the amount of waste.
• Accelerate peri-urban and regional infrastructure planning needs, including housing, to support population growth and jobs in the state’s interface corridors.
• Develop a dedicated planning strategy for Regional Victoria, which includes medium-density housing, to ensure housing and supporting infrastructure meet regional population demands.
• Increase commercial subsidy schemes to incentivise commercial property owners to install renewable energy infrastructure.
• Improve multicultural community infrastructure to help our most vulnerable individuals and communities by building social and cultural connections, strengthening community partnerships and increasing labour force participation.
• Protect and enhance Victoria’s role as a national freight hub to ensure we can efficiently and competitively move goods around Australia. 
• Release an investment plan that outlines a shared vision for Victoria's role in the national freight system, which must include industry and should incorporate rail freight connectivity to intermodals or ports and good-quality road networks that can support industrial growth. Safeguarding this competitive advantage must be the cornerstone of the updated Freight Plan.