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Tag: Public Private Partnerships

  • Investor groups question Macquarie’s infrastructure assets

    A very interesting discussion on ABC radio regarding new models of infrastructure funding and the sustainability of the programmes.

    Macquarie Bank’s bosses have made millions by buying and running toll roads and airports and it’s the world’s biggest name in infrastructure.

    But there are questions about whether its pioneering model for financing these assets is sustainable.

    Investor groups are shunning the key tollways business and they’ve told the Lateline Business TV program they don’t like the big levels of debt.

    Link: Investor groups question Macquarie’s infrastructure assets.

    Source: ABC

  • Bracks gets an ‘F’ for his school funding folly

    Kenneth Davidson reflects on the State Government’s use of PPP’s

    IT IS clear that the Bracks Government is softening up public opinion for the introduction of private funding for government schools and TAFEs, as well as other public infrastructure — even though the Government has yet to show how this form of funding offers value for money to Victorian taxpayers.

    Last week the authoritative industry newsletter on private financing of infrastructure, Thompson Financial Project Finance International, reported that the Government is developing in the Docklands the first TAFE college to be built as a public-private partnership.

    Link: Bracks gets an ‘F’ for his school funding folly.