• Champion design quality and promote awareness of the value of good design at a national level.

• Foreground and discuss at national level, key issues such as housing affordability, sustainability, the growth of cities, productivity and efficiency in the built environment, the positive social outcomes of good design, design innovation and the benefits of integrated transport networks.

• Provide GANA representation to Government-assembled expert think tanks and programs, e.g. the 2020 Summit of 2008.

• Provide authoritative consolidated advice on State and Federal policies relating to the built environment that will influence good design practice.

• Provide united endorsement of strategies, policies and initiatives that improve the quality of the built environment.

• Prepare consolidated advice and national standards for the procurement of significant projects and projects of national design interest.

• Develop and implement a standardised approach to Design Review.

• Distribute the preparation of best practice research, guidance material and case studies, collate and share for the benefit of all states and territories.

• Foster collaboration between government, industry, tertiary institutes and local government to achieve best practice in the built environment.

• Liaise with peak industry bodies (e.g. AIA, Green Building Council and Property Council) and key Federal agencies.

• Collaborate with leading tertiary institutes on major research projects with built environment impacts.