{"id":31846,"date":"2024-04-29T10:15:26","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T00:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infrastructuremagazine.com.au\/?p=52013"},"modified":"2024-04-29T10:15:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T00:15:26","slug":"interim-commissioners-appointed-for-infrastructure-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=31846","title":{"rendered":"Interim commissioners appointed for Infrastructure Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following amendments to the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Infrastructure Australia Act 2008 <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 which passed in December 2023 and came in effect in early April \u2013 the Federal Government has appointed interim commissioners to Infrastructure Australia (IA).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These appointments are part of the Federal Government\u2019s broader reforms to restore IA as the nation\u2019s preeminent adviser on infrastructure planning and investment. The new governance structure introduces three commissioners to replace the existing IA board.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gabrielle Trainor has been appointed to the role of interim Chief Commissioner, while Clare Gardiner-Barnes has been appointed as interim Commissioner effective 15 April 2024.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ms Trainor and Ms Gardiner-Barnes take on the new roles after previously serving as Chair and Director of IA\u2019s board respectively.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Federal Minister for Infrastructure, Catherine King, said that they both are highly regarded within the infrastructure sector, with extensive experience across the public and private sectors.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The commissioners will lead the agency until the government completes its merit-based recruitment process to permanently fill all three commissioner roles as outlined in legislation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now that IA is operating under its new governance structure, the former board has been dissolved.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Federal Government has said that it will shortly establish a new Advisory Council to assist the commissioners and IA CEO.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ms King thanked all the outgoing directors for their contributions to IA\u2019s board and supporting efforts to restore the agency as the country\u2019s expert independent infrastructure adviser.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Image credit: YuganovKonstantin\/shutterstock.com<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following amendments to the Infrastructure Australia Act 2008 \u2013 which passed in December 2023 and came in effect in early [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[471,8221,336,163,8203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-people","category-policy","category-rail-industry-news-australia-new-zealand","category-spotlight"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37877,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31846\/revisions\/37877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}