Governments should tread lightly on people's decisions Stop penalising people for moving house Al... more Governments should tread lightly on people's decisions Stop penalising people for moving house All states and the Northern Territory should phase out stamp duty on the transfer of residential property, and replace it with a broad-based land tax. Stop locking out new residents from their preferred locations Treasurers in all states should introduce a scheme that combines a reduction in zoning restrictions on residential density and business locations with an increase in the clarity and assignment of related parking rights, including a right to trade them. In addition, the federal Treasurer should ask the Productivity Commission to assess the costs, both direct and indirect, and the benefits of heritage protections embedded in planning regulations. Design and implement congestion pricing schemes for Sydney and Melbourne The Victorian and NSW governments should introduce time-of-day congestion pricing in the most congested central areas of each capital city, charging a low rate at peak periods in return for a freer-flowing road. The cost to drivers should be offset by a discount on vehicle registration, with revenue from the congestion charge earmarked to spending on public transport improvements. Governments should spend smarter on infrastructure Only spend public money on infrastructure that has been properly assessed The Commonwealth Government should amend the National Land Transport Act to prohibit the provision of funding to state governments for infrastructure projects unless a full business case has been prepared, and then evaluated by Infrastructure Australia, and the business case and evaluation have been tabled in Parliament. For all projects valued at $50 million or more, the government should also ask Infrastructure Australia to publish a reliability rating of the business cases within a month of their tabling. Devote more resources to identifying modest-sized transport projects State departments of transport should devote more resources to identifying modest-sized transport infrastructure proposals with higher net benefits than large and very large projects. Adopt more realistic assumptions for cost-benefit analysis The Commonwealth Minister for Infrastructure should ask Infrastructure Australia to develop more realistic assumptions for cost-benefit analysis, acknowledging the widespread adaptation that occurs under the base-case scenario used to quantify a project's benefits, particularly arising from changes in land-use. Learn from experience of completed projects The Commonwealth Minister for Infrastructure should ask Infrastructure Australia to review and make public the benefits and costs of each completed project, and the reviews should be made public.
Governments should tread lightly on people's decisions Stop penalising people for moving house Al... more Governments should tread lightly on people's decisions Stop penalising people for moving house All states and the Northern Territory should phase out stamp duty on the transfer of residential property, and replace it with a broad-based land tax. Stop locking out new residents from their preferred locations Treasurers in all states should introduce a scheme that combines a reduction in zoning restrictions on residential density and business locations with an increase in the clarity and assignment of related parking rights, including a right to trade them. In addition, the federal Treasurer should ask the Productivity Commission to assess the costs, both direct and indirect, and the benefits of heritage protections embedded in planning regulations. Design and implement congestion pricing schemes for Sydney and Melbourne The Victorian and NSW governments should introduce time-of-day congestion pricing in the most congested central areas of each capital city, charging a low rate at peak periods in return for a freer-flowing road. The cost to drivers should be offset by a discount on vehicle registration, with revenue from the congestion charge earmarked to spending on public transport improvements. Governments should spend smarter on infrastructure Only spend public money on infrastructure that has been properly assessed The Commonwealth Government should amend the National Land Transport Act to prohibit the provision of funding to state governments for infrastructure projects unless a full business case has been prepared, and then evaluated by Infrastructure Australia, and the business case and evaluation have been tabled in Parliament. For all projects valued at $50 million or more, the government should also ask Infrastructure Australia to publish a reliability rating of the business cases within a month of their tabling. Devote more resources to identifying modest-sized transport projects State departments of transport should devote more resources to identifying modest-sized transport infrastructure proposals with higher net benefits than large and very large projects. Adopt more realistic assumptions for cost-benefit analysis The Commonwealth Minister for Infrastructure should ask Infrastructure Australia to develop more realistic assumptions for cost-benefit analysis, acknowledging the widespread adaptation that occurs under the base-case scenario used to quantify a project's benefits, particularly arising from changes in land-use. Learn from experience of completed projects The Commonwealth Minister for Infrastructure should ask Infrastructure Australia to review and make public the benefits and costs of each completed project, and the reviews should be made public.
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