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Future Building 2024

An annual journal of insights from Partnerships, Australia’s most prestigious gathering of infrastructure leaders.

Future Building 2024

Content Overview

  • P2 Chairman’s Foreword | Sir Rod Eddington AO, Chairman, Infrastructure Partnerships Australia
  • P3 Partnerships – 2024 sponsors
  • P8 CEO welcome | Adrian Dwyer, Chief Executive Officer, Infrastructure Partnerships Australia
  • P10 Treasurer’s address | The Hon. Daniel Mookhey MLC, Treasurer of New South Wales
  • P16 Panel discussion | Delivering the energy transition
  • P26 Keynote address | The Hon. Catherine King MP, Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government
  • P32 Keynote interview | Shemara Wikramanayake, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Macquarie Group
  • P42 Keynote address | Roch Cheroux, Managing Director, Sydney Water
  • P45 In conversation with Michelle Jablko, Chief Executive Officer, Transurban
  • P49 Macquarie Capital economic update
  • P56 Panel discussion | Building social infrastructure assets
  • P66 Panel discussion | Boosting productivity: industrial relations, planning and technology
  • P74 Fireside chat | Unlocking more value through collaboration

Chairman’s Forward

In September, Infrastructure Partnerships Australia hosted its flagship conference, Partnerships, in Sydney. As Partnerships inches towards its two-decade milestone, the value of the event in fostering good infrastructure policy and dialogue grows each year.

Partnerships represents conversations at the highest levels of our industry and, this year, new heights were reached. I am delighted to present this year’s edition of Future Building, which captures these conversations led by the most senior leaders in the sector, across government and industry.

In the opening address of the conference, Treasurer of New South Wales the Hon. Daniel Mookhey MLC inaugurated a new business case policy in the State to enhance efficiency, precision, and fiscal responsibility in infrastructure project delivery.

The conversation around infrastructure reform was also carried by the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government the Hon. Catherine King, who, in her second Partnerships address as Minister, reflected on the progress of reform at a federal level.

Influential C-suite leaders added their voices to the day, shedding light on their unique programs of work – Macquarie Group’s Shemara Wikramanayake, on navigating the macro‑economic factors at home and abroad; Sydney Water’s Roch Cheroux, on the critical capital program being undertaken to improve water capacity across Greater Sydney; and Transurban’s Michelle Jablko, on the business growth opportunities on the horizon.

This year’s Partnerships also brought together senior leaders to examine how they are working towards solving pertinent industry challenges, including the formidable energy transition task, the rapidly expanding social infrastructure pipeline, and productivity enhancement in industrial relations, planning and technology.

In a first for Partnerships, and a reflection of the high-quality, exclusive member experiences we deliver, the event closed with a fireside chat between Sydney Airport’s Scott Charlton and Vanessa Hudson from Qantas. The two aviation leaders tapped into the opportunities for collaboration between their respective organisations.

As we embark on a new year, I hope that revisiting these conversations will offer fresh insight into many new and ongoing challenges and continues to inspire your thinking on how you can actively contribute to the future of our industry.

Sir Rod Eddington AO

Chairman, Infrastructure Partnerships Australia


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