ABSTRACT
This chapter takes a look at the experience of adopting Public-private partnership (PPP) in six continents in order to realise how their experiences with PPP projects vary. PPP was encouraged vigorously in 2007 to deal with ageing public facilities and services in Canada. Although for decades there have been public works projects delivered in Australia by similar partnership arrangements, it has only been since the early 1990s that PPP was first properly introduced. Queensland has therefore adopted PPP much more slowly than other states in Australia. The Queensland government's state budget is in a much more robust situation compared to that of Victoria when it first adopted PPP. Obviously, with the amount of experience and research done on PPP in other parts of Australia, the Queensland government is aware that PPP should be driven by value for money. The Victoria government has handled the most PPP projects in Australia in terms of number and variation.
