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The Brisbane Olympics will test Australia’s national infrastructure capability — not just Queensland’s. As delivery timelines compress and experience is stretched, the real risk lies in capability fragmentation, governance gaps and decision-making under pressure.

Australia’s infrastructure pipeline is growing — but senior, delivery-tested experience is thinning. Why judgement built across cycles is becoming harder to replace, and why it matters most under pressure

Private sector advisory firms are being pulled far deeper into delivery risk as major infrastructure programs move from financial close into execution. This shift is changing the expectations placed on advisors — and exposing capability gaps that traditional advisory models were never designed to manage.