ABSTRACT
The Rouse Hill Infrastructure Consortium (RHIC) involved in physical or “hard” infrastructure, and the Rouse Hill Community Planning Team (RHCPT) dealing with social or “soft” infrastructure, both officially emerged in 1989. The groups were alliances of government and non-government organizations brought together at the instigation of state government bureaucrats as both lobby groups and alternative providers of services. As the development came close to a halt in the mid-1980s because of concerns over costs to government, the two groups-particularly the consortium-provided a means of continuing the project.
