01105pab a2200145 454500008004000000100001700040245008700057260000900144300001500153362000800168520068800176650003200864700001500896773004800911180718b2017   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aCurtain, Kim  aBusting some of the public private partnership myths from a government perspective  c2017  ap.283-287.  aSep  aSince the 1980s, state governments across Australia have procured critical and complex infrastructure projects via a Public Private Partnership ("PPP"). Despite the long history and widespread use of PPPs in many sectors, there are still many misconceptions and myths regarding PPPs. This article attempts to demystify, from a government's perspective, some of those common misconceptions and myths. We noted that there are multiple ways of structuring a PPP arrangement, that the purpose is not to maximise risk transfer to the private sector but to allocate risks to the party best able to manage them and that a PPP structure does not circumvent funding constraints. - Reproduced.  aPublic private partnerships  aBetts, Jim  aAustralian Journal of Public Administration