Jervis Bay Territory Administration
Government in Jervis Bay Territory

The Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development is responsible for the design and implementation of the Australian Government's infrastructure, transport and regional development policies and programmed. Our advice supports the Australian Government to ensure Australia's cities and regions are places of commerce and community, supported by safe, efficient and secure transport systems. The Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development is responsible for the design and implementation of the Australian Government's infrastructure, transport and regional development policies and programs. The Australian Government works closely with states and territories to improve our planning approaches, strengthen investment decision making and evaluation, and to reform the way we fund and invest in transport infrastructure. Improving the safety and security of our people and freight in our transport systems. We will remain to work with states and territories on transport planning to inform coming investment priorities. Work with state, territory and local governments to thrive options to urge longer term institutional and governance reform of land transport market investment and charging arrangements. Ensure supple and proportionate regulation that delivers measurable benefits and ensures that the transport security regulatory model operates efficiently and effectively. Ensure the aviation industry operates within a clear and robust safety regulatory environment and Australian businesses and consumers have access to competitive domestic and international air services. Ensure vehicle standards deliver both safety and sure environmental outcomes and are consistent with international approaches. Compliance activity is risk based and healthy informed. Australia's road and vehicle safety systems are more efficient, with Commonwealth regulation that encourages efficiency and where compliance and monitoring is increasingly risked based and streamlined. Our regional development program delivers a range of regionally focused stakeholder consultation and engagement, research, policy development and program delivery activities. Thrive and implement policies and programs to support economic growth and services to regional communities. Support a network of regional development committees to bear a resource for regional communities to have a voice in their economic development, and to produce the Australian Government an opportunity to engage directly with regions on economic development. Regional Development Australia committees work with key regional stakeholders and local governments to thrive a regionally supported plan, quality priority economic development project proposals and promote Australian Government programs. Our services to territories program works to improve the quality of services provided to residents of the nonselfgoverning territories and providing targeted urge to the self governing territories through economic and social sustainability initiatives, delivery of services and managing the Australian Government's interests in the territories. Produce services, funding encourage and undertake capital works as good to ensure territory communities have access to same services as identical state communities. Promote economic and productivity growth through the development of efficient and effective legislation, regulation and policy. Our internal and outer planning and reporting activities yield information on our resourcing, operations and performance which encourage the achievement of our outcomes and purposes. We store a high priority on our people and ensuring we have the necessary workforce capability to deliver outcomes for the Australian Government. Implementing these strategies will ensure we have the workforce we need to remain delivering tall quality outcomes for the Australian Government, our stakeholders and the community. His work with the infrastructure and regional development portfolio includes management of infrastructure investment policy initiatives to increase productivity security, safety and regulation in road, rail, aviation and maritime transport regional development local government and services to Australia's territories. We aid our Ministers and the Australian Government to: promote, evaluate, plan and invest in infrastructure encourage an efficient, sustainable, competitive, sound and secure transport system and ensure a potent and livable Australia by focusing on effective local government, regional development and the administration of the external territories.

Australia's first rail systems were mostly built when the country consisted of sparsely settled colonies, earlier they combined to form a Federation of States in 1901. Initially all track and rolling stock was imported, although by the 1880s most of the equipment was being made locally. While the railways were operated initially by private companies, a shortage of speculation capital resulted in the continued d