How the Pipeline is built

The Pipeline joins public registers that each hold part of the picture. No single government source records a project’s state approval, federal approval, value, owner and builder together. Every fact on a project page links to the record it came from.

Sources

NSW Major Projects: State significant development and infrastructure in NSW: location, industry, stage, determination, modifications.NSW Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure. CC BY 4.0. © State of New South Wales and Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure.
NSW Major Projects documents: The capital investment value, jobs and applicant stated in a project's notice of decision, assessment report, application form, cost report or scoping report, read in that order. Each value names its document. Figures from applicant documents are facts only, and a scoping estimate is labelled as one.NSW Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure, and applicants. Department documents CC BY 4.0. Applicant documents are their authors' material: we record the stated figure and link to the document.
EPBC Act referrals: Every referral under the EPBC Act since 2000, nationally: location, category, referral decision and assessment stage.Australian Government, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. CC BY 4.0. EPBC Referrals Spatial Database © Commonwealth of Australia.
Infrastructure Investment Program: Federally funded road and rail projects: location, estimated project cost and program status.Australian Government, Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts. CC BY 3.0 AU. © Commonwealth of Australia.
Queensland Budget 2026-27, Budget Paper 3 capital statement: Queensland Government capital projects: agency, total estimated cost, spend to date and location.Queensland Treasury. CC BY 4.0. © State of Queensland.
Generation Information, July 2026: Generation and storage projects in the National Electricity Market: owner, capacity and commitment status.Australian Energy Market Operator. Used under AEMO's copyright permissions, with attribution to AEMO.
Pipeline of projects: NSW Government projects coming to market, with estimated value bands.Infrastructure NSW. © State of New South Wales (Infrastructure NSW). Value bands are cited as published.
Queensland Transport and Roads Investment Program 2025-26 to 2028-29: State road and rail works: committed total budget or published value band, funding partners, status and location.Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads. CC BY 4.0. © State of Queensland (Department of Transport and Main Roads).
ARENA funded projects: Renewable energy and industrial projects ARENA has funded: total project value, lead organisation and project partners.Australian Renewable Energy Agency. CC BY 2.5 AU. © Commonwealth of Australia (Australian Renewable Energy Agency).
MINEDEX major resource projects: WA mines, processing plants and resource projects: stage, location and current owners with their equity.Western Australian Department of Mines, Petroleum and Exploration. CC BY 4.0. © State of Western Australia.
Victorian Budget 2026-27, Budget Paper 4 State Capital Program: Victorian Government capital projects: total estimated investment, spend to date, completion and locality. Localities are placed at the suburb centre (ABS Suburbs and Localities, CC BY 4.0).Victorian Department of Treasury and Finance. CC BY 4.0. © State of Victoria.
NSW Budget capital projects: NSW Government capital projects from the 2025-26 Budget map: estimated total cost, status, start and completion years, agency and site. Programs spread across many sites are not placed on the map.NSW Treasury. CC BY 4.0 under the NSW Government copyright notice. © State of New South Wales (NSW Treasury).
Victorian planning scheme amendments: The amendments a Minister uses to approve major projects: status, outcome, decision and gazettal dates. Checked daily for linked projects.Victorian Department of Transport and Planning. Facts as published by the Department, with a link to the record.
Proposals assessed by the EPA: EPA Board environmental impact assessments: current stage and key dates. Checked daily for linked projects.Environment Protection Authority Tasmania. Facts as published by the EPA, with a link to the record.

How projects are matched

A project often appears in several registers under slightly different names. Records are joined on a shared identifier where one exists, such as the EPBC number a NSW application cites. Otherwise they are joined on name and location together, and only when both agree closely. Generic names such as “Residential flat building” are never matched on name alone. When a match was made by name and location, the project page says so beside the source.

What each stage means

In planning: Assessment requirements issued or an EPBC referral lodged, or a funded government project not yet substantially under way.
In assessment: An application is lodged and being assessed, or the EPBC Act assessment is under way.
Approved: A determining authority has approved the project. Approval does not mean work has started.
Under construction: AEMO lists the project as committed or commissioning, a federal program lists it as under construction, or a state budget shows at least a tenth of its cost spent.
Operating: AEMO lists the project as in service.

What the Pipeline does not have yet

Contractors are not published in any open register at scale, so most projects show none yet. Values exist only where a public source states one. Coverage is deepest in NSW, where every State significant project is included. Elsewhere the Pipeline shows projects referred under the EPBC Act, federally funded transport and Queensland Government capital works. More state registers are being added.

Corrections

If something is wrong or out of date, email us with the project and the source. If a project page names you as a person and you would rather it did not, tell us and we will remove it.