The Victorian Planning Minister has introduced legislation to implement a new development levy framework for the state Developers and land owners in growth and strategic development areas will need to understand the new system of standard and supplementary levies although much of the detail is still ...

A significant suite of infrastructure projects across transport public housing health and prisons as well as new bodies to facilitate their delivery have been announced in the NSW Budget Partner Leighton OBrien and Associate Dennis Smith report ...

In a recent decision the Supreme Court of Western Australia quashed two adjudication determinations on the basis of jurisdictional error At the core of the decision was a finding that the adjudicator had misapplied the terms of the relevant construction contract The decision suggests that an ...

Legislation has been introduced in Victoria to provide for new standard infrastructure levies to fund local infrastructure such as roads community centres kindergartens maternal and child health facilities local parks and sporting facilities ...

The WA Government has issued its formal guidelines for unsolicited proposals for the sale or lease of State-owned land By embracing the possibility of unsolicited proposals as opposed to encumbering every development opportunity with a procurement process and by expressing a willingness to engage ...

The Queensland Parliament has passed the Chain of Responsibility Bill with important amendments prior to enactment The amending Act establishes a new regime under the States primary environmental legislation that exposes related bodies corporate executive officers financiers shareholders and a ...

Allens Partners Paul Kenny and Tim Stewart hosted a roundtable with the NSW Treasurer Gladys Berejiklian in Sydney involving fund managers and financiers to talk about how the private and public sector can work together to deliver on NSWs ambitious infrastructure programme ...

With large-scale privatisations slowing and intense competition for assets that do come to market institutional investors are looking to non-traditional assets to provide similar long-term stable and predictable returns ...

The Victorian Government has recently released an updated version of its Market-led Proposals Guideline also known as unsolicited proposals in other states which affirms its continued focus on market-led infrastructure and services projects and provides increased clarity for proponents around the ...

The NT Government has released the Roadmap to Renewables report which considers how the Government could successfully implement a policy to achieve half of the Territorys energy requirements from renewable sources by 2030 ...