some centralised guidance relating to the objectives and priorities that infrastructure policies and investment prioritisation should pursue is essential to ensuring the overall coherence of investments across sectors thus infrastructure strategies should not only take into account the specific needs of a sector but also ensure that investment plans contribute to achieving broader longterm development goals the infrastructure plan encompasses how infrastructure is financed delivered and used and it is guided by a set of australias main longterm ambitions this holistic approach considers all infrastructure sectors within a single plan which encourages greater alignment across sectors and investments and creates more spaces for generating synergies