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The Australian Space Agency is responsible for regulating Australian space and high power rocket activities and international arrangements affecting space regulation.
This outline funding agreement sets out the draft terms on which the Australian Government granted funding under Round 1 of the Program.
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The operator is granted non-exclusive operational rights for the operation of coal trains on a specific part of the coal network against the payment of certain service charges. Aurizon is responsible for the infrastructure management as well as the scheduling and control of all train movements.
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Key features of the agreement:
Key features of the draft funding agreement include:
In Australia, PPPs for conventional generation projects are less common as they are often privately financed. Rather, PPPs are more likely to be used for infrastructure projects of systemic importance (such as provisions of system stability services). The agreement provides a good illustration of a “light government touch” PPP project where the government assumes relatively little project (including regulatory) risk, which is reflective of Australia’s more market based energy sector: