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Grant Wilson

The NAIF is no longer an abject failure

The Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility has come a long way in the past three years. The Albanese government can do more to underwrite its success.

Before the federal election in May 2019, and in full campaign mode, then-Labor leader Bill Shorten eviscerated the Northern Australian Infrastructure Facility.

He characterised NAIF as an “abject failure”, and committed to an overhaul, with an emphasis on projects of national economic significance, such as gas infrastructure from Beetaloo Basin.

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Grant Wilson is Executive Chair of Tivan Limited, a critical minerals company with major project status in the Northern Territory. He sits on the Advisory Board of Exante Data, Inc, a macro advisory and data analytics company based in New York. Connect with Grant on Twitter.

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