Who decides infrastructure priorities? Federal funding for urban transport in the time of climate change

In January, the new Commonwealth Government announced, as a major plank in its “war on inflation”, its support for a multi-billion program of ‘public-private partnership’ construction projects to plug the so-called ‘infrastructure gap'. At the same time, the government announced the establishment of a statutory advisory council which would report directly to the new Minister for Infrastructure, Anthony Albanese, and would advise the goverment on the priorites for this construction program.