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Support to recycle Queensland assets

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2016
... Springborg has received support after flagging his Liberal-National Party (LNP) were again open to discussions on asset recycling in the sunshine state. The Chamber of Commerce and Industry Queensland (CCIQ), which represents small business, would like ...

Experts urge govt to do more to boost infra investment

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015
... to shoulder the additional development, operational, patronage and political risks in greenfield projects. The Asset Recycling Initiative (which involves governments privatising mature assets and reinvesting the proceeds into new infrastructure) was ...

NSW to receive $2 billion infrastructure incentive

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
... electricity network to invest in rail and road projects, the payments come from the Commonwealth's $5 billion Asset Recycling Initiative pool. The Initiative was approved for all states and territories in May 2014 and funds are "available on a first ...

Governments are 'out of money': Hockey

AAP, PETER TRUTE  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
... infrastructure needs that the community has and therefore we need you and we need your money." Mr Hockey pointed to the asset recycling program introduced in the federal budget to encourage privatisation of state government assets - as Australia's effort ...

NSW govt promises $60 billion infrastructure spend

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2014
... years. The majority of this would take place after the next election, and would rely on continued income from the 'asset recycling program', including from the partial lease of NSW's electricity distribution network. The majority of the projects named ...

Abbott eyes Canadian pension money

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
... infrastructure asset sales in their budgets. It also follows the federal government's announcement of a $5 billion 'asset recycling fund'. Canadian pension funds are already significant investors in global infrastructure. The C$140 billion plus Ontario ...

FEATURE: Bulldozing the infrastructure roadblocks

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... insto managers - there is one measure that could have a very significant impact on super funds: the $5 billion 'Asset Recycling Fund'. The aim of the fund is to encourage state governments to sell existing assets and use the proceeds to build new infrastructure. ...

Super sector eyes Qld ports and generators

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
... paying off the states $80 billion debt. Whether this means it will qualify to benefit from the federal government's asset recycling initiative is unclear.

States urged to recycle infrastructure

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2014
... government is urging state governments to privatise infrastructure assets, with the creation of a $5 billion 'asset recycling initiative'. For a period of five years, the federal government will use this pool to pay state governments 15% of the price ...

Cuts to ASIC and ATO push industry to self-regulation

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014
... reductions planned." The ASIC registry function will also be sold and proceeds for the sale will be reinvested in the Asset Recycling Fund. The Financial Planning Association (FPA) general manager of policy and conduct Dante De Gori said that the organisation ...