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The ageing of the population presents considerable challenges to governments and the private sector to provide innovative and efficient ways to deliver the essential health and ageing facilites the communitry needs. Our infrastructure team has a long track-record of advising on the planning, procurement and delivery of health and ageing infrastructure projects. Our extensive experience includes structuring private finance arrangements, having successfully delivered to financial close more health PPPs for government than any other legal adviser in Australia. PPPs in health and medical projects present a unique set of challenges, particularly when services are to be delivered by health and medical organisations on a multi-agency basis. Our strength is our ability to tailor a cross-disciplinary team for the lifecycle of the infrastructure project and seamlessly integrate our specialists from areas such as real estate, planning, environment, construction, tax, finance, competition and regulatory, insurance and dispute resolution to manage risk and achieve the best commercial outcome.
On Tuesday, 29 November 2011, as part of its Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook 2011-12, the Federal Government announced a package of changes intended to raise A$11.5 billion in new revenue and savings.