Victoria matters to this database in 2026 for a specific reason: it enacted the exact class of reform this site was built to identify, and it did so explicitly on the grounds that a sequence was causing delay.

Amendments to the Electricity Industry Act in 2026 allow compulsory acquisition of transmission easements to proceed concurrently with the environment effects process, rather than only after it. The stated rationale was that the sequential requirement was contributing to delivery delays on VNI West and the Western Renewables Link.

That is a parallelise reform, enacted, with a named cause. This project models it as data in Build a major transmission line — concurrent easement pathway (Victoria) against the sequential pathway so the saving can be estimated and, eventually, checked against what actually happens.

It is also the sharpest available test of this project's central claim. If resequencing recovers the time the model says it should, that is evidence. If it does not -- if the acquisition simply moves earlier and becomes contested earlier, with landholders now negotiating against a route that has not yet been assessed -- then the model is missing something important, and that finding is worth more than the reform was.