Freedom of information disclosure log

1. A to Z acronyms and quick style guide
2. Billabong intranet page - Logo and branding
3. Billabong intranet page - MDBA First Nations cultural protocols and style guide
4. Billabong intranet page - Writing style guide
5. MDBA Cultural Protocols and Style Guide
6. MDBA Visual Identity Manual

The Request sought documents only in operation at the date of the Request and excluded:

• personal information of non-Senior Executive Service (SES) or equivalent staff; and
• culturally sensitive information.

6 documents were identified in total:

2 documents were be released in full; and

4 documents (Documents 2, 3, 4 and 6) were released with out of scope/ irrelevant information redacted (personal information of non-SES MDBA staff members).
 

1. E-mail - A message to you from PM&C Secretary Davis and APS Commissioner de Brouwer – All APS staff
2. E-mail - MDBA APS Bargaining Update 16
3. E-mail - link provided on Viva Engage to all staff] APS Diversity and Inclusion Newsletter – Edition 16
4. E-mail - Business Bulletin – 10 November 2023
5. E-mail - PM&C Secretary and APS Commissioner to all APS staff – A message to all staff – APS Integrity Taskforce Report
6. E-mail - Business Bulletin – 23 November 2023 edition
7. Word Document - Attachment A – SES Talking points – Robodebt Royal Commission Government Response
8. E-mail - Talking Points - Release of the Government Response to the Robodebt Royal Commission Report

The Request does not seek access to the following:

• Any document that solely deals with adverse findings relating to individual members of staff of the agency;
• duplicates;
• draft documents; and
• personal information.

8 documents were identified in total:

8 documents released in full with irrelevant information deleted from 6 of these 8 documents under section 22 of the FOI Act.

1. E2023/0448 - BASIN PLAN - Implementation - Sustainable Diversion Limit (SDL) accounting talking points, briefing notes and other (Folder 1)
2. E2023/0289 - BASIN PLAN - Implementation - Murrumbidgee Baseline Diversion Limit (BDL) re-estimate (Folder 2)
3. E2023/0278 - NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT - Monitoring, Evaluation & Review - End of Valley Targets (EOVT) review step 1 – 2023 (Folder 3)
4. E2023/0132 - INFORMATION & TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT - Systems Management - Master Control Records - Hydrological Analysis - MDB storages basemap for northern inflows - J4838 (Folder 4)
5. E2023/0129 - INFORMATION & TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT - Systems Management - Master Control Records - Science and Knowledge - Spatial data for Land and Ecosystem Accounting Project (LEAP) - J4583 (Folder 5)

The Request does not seek access to the following:

• Duplicates of any document captured within the scope of the request
• Personal information
• Legal advice

57 documents were identified in total:

51 documents released in full with irrelevant information deleted from 40 of these 51 documents under section 22 of the FOI Act; and
6 documents withheld in full due to the application of the following exemptions:

• s 47C of the FOI Act (deliberative processes);
• s 47B of the FOI Act (Commonwealth-state relations); and
• s47G of the FOI Act (Business information).

1. Letters or emails between MDBA SES level officers with responsibility for Water Resource Plan assessment and the NSW State Government that relate to the recent withdrawal (on or about 25 May 2023) of seven NSW Water Resource Plans.
2. Any Authority, Departmental (Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water), or Ministerial briefings in the period 01 June 2022 to 12 June 2023, addressing post reconciliation options relating to incomplete supply, efficiency or additional measures*.

 * ‘incomplete’ in this context meaning measures which have not realised the notified contribution.  

3. The content of File “E2022/1208 BASIN PLAN - Implementation - Water Accounting - Adelaide Desalination Plant Environmental Reporting - 30 June 2022” as listed in the Agencies Indexed list of files – 1 July to 31 December 2022.

 The Request does not seek access to the following:

• Duplicates of any document captured within the scope of the request.
• Drafts of any document except where there is no final, in which case I seek the most recent draft.
• Publicly available records.
• The mobile numbers or full email addresses of government officials, nor the names and contact details of government officials not in the Senior Executive Service or equivalent.

The applicant requests that junior officials’ position or titles be left unredacted, along with email domains that provide useful information as to the origin and destination of communication e.g. [redacted]@dcceew.gov.au.

65 documents were identified in total:

57 documents released in full with irrelevant information deleted from 24 of these 57 documents under section 22 of the FOI Act; and

8 documents withheld in full due to the application of the following exemptions:

• s 47C of the FOI Act (deliberative processes); and
• s 42 of the FOI Act (legal professional privilege).

In relation to the 7 withdrawn WRPs, all:

1. correspondence between the Authority and NSW (including but not limited to: emails and letters (including attachments or enclosures));
2. file notes of telephone attendances and meetings; and
3. meeting minutes.

that contains the feedback provided by the Authority to NSW in relation to the 7 withdrawn WRPs.

In respect of the request:

1. the reference to 7 WRPs only refers to the versions of the proposed WRPs as withdrawn by NSW on or around 25 May 2023; and
2. this request excludes any information that is publicly available and any personal information within the meaning of section 47F of the FOI Act. 

54 documents were identified in total:

54 documents released in full with irrelevant information deleted from 27 of these 54 documents under section 22 of the FOI Act;

Meeting agendas and minutes of the Sustainable Diversion Limit Adjustment Assessment Committee (SDLAAC), March 2013 until November 2017 inclusive.

The request excludes personal information and duplicate documents.

75 documents were identified in total:

74 documents released in full with irrelevant information deleted from 69 of these 74 documents under section 22 of the FOI Act; and

1 document released in part due to the application of the following exemption: section 47B (Commonwealth state relations) of the FOI Act and with irrelevant information deleted under section 22 of the FOI Act.

1. A copy of the minutes of any meeting(s) at which the Authority decided to make the recommendation(s) to the Minister to accredit the Fractured Rock WRP (see Water Act 2007 (Cth) ss 194, 196).
2. If the Authority decided to make the recommendation(s) to the Minister to accredit the Fractured Rock WRP without a meeting, a copy of the record(s) of all decisions required to be made in accordance with Water Act 2007 (Cth) s 197 (see Water Act 2007 (Cth) ss 197, 198).

This request excludes:

3. personal information (as defined for the purposes of s 47F of the FOI Act) except insofar it is necessary to release personal information in order for it to be apparent on the face of the documents that/when individual members of the Authority are contributing to a decision making process; and
4. any information which is publicly available.

Note: References to the "Authority" in this Application are to be understood by reference to s 177 of the Water Act 2007 (Cth)

The Applicant’s request in paragraph (a) can be expressly confined in scope to only such content of the minutes of relevant meeting(s) of the Authority insofar as that content relates or refers to the Authority’s decision to make recommendation(s) to the Minister to accredit the Fractured Rock WRP.

1 document was identified in total:

1 document released in part due to the application of the following exemption: section 42 (legal professional privilege) of the FOI Act and with irrelevant information deleted under section 22 of the FOI Act.

All documents that were before the Authority (including, where relevant, any delegate(s) of the Authority) including without limitation any proposed decision brief (or similar document) and any attachments to it, for consideration when making the recommendation to the Minister to accredit the [NSW Murray-Darling Basin Fractured Rock] WRP, pursuant to section 63 of the Water Act.

This request excludes:

1. personal information (as defined for the purposes of s47F of the FOI Act);
2. any information which is publicly available; and
3. Attachments A to EE in Schedule C (NSW Murray-Darling Basin Fractured Rock Consultation Report) and any direct extract from those documents.

13 documents were identified in total:    
10 documents released in full with irrelevant information deleted from 1 of these 10 documents under section 22 of the FOI Act;    
1 document released in part due to the application of the following exemption: section 42 (legal professional privilege) of the FOI Act and with irrelevant information deleted under section 22 of the FOI Act; and

2 documents exempt in full due to the application of the following exemption: section 42 (legal professional privilege) of the FOI Act.

1. In relation to all proposed water resource plans for the NSW Border Rivers Alluvium water resource plan area, including the following:

1. draft NSW Border Rivers Alluvium Water Resource Plan submitted April 2020 and withdrawn May 2021;
2. draft NSW Border Rivers Alluvium Water Resource Plan resubmitted February 2022;

all:

3. correspondence (including but not limited to: emails and letters (including attachments or enclosures));
4. file notes of telephone attendances and meetings; and
5. meeting minutes,
6. briefing materials,

produced or received since 1 May 2021, that:

7. refer to or comprise pre‐submission checks and informal feedback between the Authority and the NSW Government (including the Authority’s Board and its executive and non‐executive employees, and Ministers and executive and non‐executive employees of the NSW Government) in the “assist” and “assess” stage of the accreditation process; and

2. In relation to all 20 draft NSW WRPs, all documents which set out the grounds on which the Authority determined that it should recommend that the Minister not accredit a proposed WRP (Notice of Grounds), pursuant to s63(4)(a) of the Water Act other than:

1. Notice of Ground dated 4 November 2020 for the proposed Lachlan (Surface Water) Water Resource Plan;
2. Notice of Grounds dated 12 February 2021 for the proposed Namoi Alluvium (Groundwater) Water Resource Plan;
3. Notice of Grounds dated 17 March 2021 for the proposed Namoi (Surface Water) Water Resource Plan;
4. Notice of Grounds dated 25 March 2021 for the proposed Murrumbidgee (Surface Water) Water Resource Plan;
5. Notice of Grounds dated 23 April 2021 for the proposed Gwydir Alluvium (Groundwater) Water Resource Plan;
6. Notice of Grounds dated 6 May 2021 for the proposed Murray and Lower Darling Water Resource Plan;
7. Notice of Grounds dated 6 May 2021 for the proposed NSW Border Rivers (Surface Water) Water Resource Plan; and
8. Notice of Grounds dated 6 May 2021 for the proposed NSW Border Rivers (Alluvium) Water Resource Plan.

3. In paragraph 2, 20 draft NSW WRPs only refers to the versions of proposed water resource plans originally submitted by NSW under s 63 of the Water Act and withdrawn by NSW in 2020 and 2021.    
This request excludes:

1. personal information (as defined for the purposes of s47F of the FOI Act);
2. any information which is publicly available ; and
3. All attachments to Schedule C (Consultation Report) to each of the Water Resource Plans set out in paragraph 1(a)‐(f) of this request and any direct extract from those documents or any information that the MDBA understands comprises sensitive, secret or sacred cultural information as identified through consultation.

77 documents were identified in total:

76 documents released in full with irrelevant information deleted from 69 of these 76 documents under section 22 of the FOI Act; and

1 document released in part due to the application of the following conditional exemption: section 47B of the FOI Act (Commonwealth-state relations) and with irrelevant information deleted under section 22 of the FOI Act.

In relation to the proposed NSW Border Rivers Alluvium WRPs, all:

1. correspondence (including but not limited to: emails and letters (including attachments or enclosures);
2. file notes of telephone attendances and meetings;
3. meeting minutes; and
4. briefing materials,

produced or received since the proposed NSW Border Rivers Alluvium WRP was re-submitted in February 2022,

5. that were sent to, or received from, relevant First Nations representatives:
   
   1. in relation to the Authority's consultation about whether the proposed NSW Border Rivers Alluvium WRPs were consistent with the requirements regarding Indigenous values and uses in Chapter 10, Part 14 of the Basin Plan, and chapter 10, Part 9 (specifically, identification of risks to Indigenous values and uses); or
   2. which related to the need for any additional advice.

In this paragraph:

1. proposed NSW Border Rivers Alluvium WRPs are a reference to all proposed water resource plans for the NSW Border Rivers Alluvium water resource plan area that were/was re-submitted to the Authority, in February 2022.
2. Relevant First Nations representatives includes, but is not limited to, the Northern Basin Aboriginal Nations (NBAN), Bigambul Native Title Aboriginal Corporation (Bigambul), i2i Development Global Pty Ltd and all representatives who were identified as being consulted by NSW in the NSW Border Rivers Alluvium Water Resource Plan Consultation Report dated July 2019.
3. additional advice is a reference to:
   
   1. advice referred to in paragraph 32 of the Water Resource Plan Assessment Report – Proposed NSW Border Rivers Alluvium Water Resource Plan (August 2022), and
   2. other advice sought or received by the MDBA, in relation to the proposed NSW Border Rivers Alluvium WRPs from Relevant First Nations representatives about Indigenous values and uses which aren't already caught by paragraph c.i. above.

This request excludes:

1. personal information (as defined for the purposes of s47F of the FOI Act);
2. any information which is publicly available; and
3. Attachments A to F in Schedule C (Consultation Report) to the NSW Border Rivers Alluvium Water Resource Plan and any direct extract from those documents or any information that the MDBA understands comprises sensitive, secret or sacred cultural information as identified through consultation.

15 documents were identified in total:

15 documents released in full with irrelevant information deleted from 13 documents of these 15 documents under section 22 of the FOI Act.

73 documents released in full (noting 53 of these documents have had irrelevant information deleted under section 22 of the FOI Act where appropriate/practicable);

2 documents (Documents 29 and 30) released in part with exempt information deleted under sections 47H (incomplete research) and 47G (business information) of the FOI Act – both of these documents also have irrelevant information redacted under section 22 of the FOI Act; and

2 documents (Documents 20 and 24) exempt in full under section 47H (incomplete research).

All correspondence, including attachments, received from:

• NSW Irrigators Council
• National Irrigators Council
• Gwydir Valley Irrigators Association
• Namoi Water
• Macquarie River Food and Fibre
• Border Rivers Food & Fibre
• Barwon Darling Water

between 1 April and 31 July 2020. 
In this request I do not seek:

1. Personal information except for the name of the sender and/or recipient, or officers above EL2; and

2. Duplicate documents.

Meeting/briefing papers to/of the Basin Officials Committee, the River Murray Operations Committee and/or the Capacity Policy Working Group dated this financial year (i.e. from 1 July 2019 to 30 March 2020, being the date of this FOI request) on the risks that increases in permanent plantings or plantations pose to the management of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan and the sustainability of water resources allocated from the Murray-Darling Basin having regard to capacity constraints.*

*Excluding:

• drafts;
• duplicate documents; and
• personal information of non-SES staff.

29 documents released in full (with irrelevant information deleted from 17 documents of these 29 documents)*; and

1 document (Document 12) released in part due to the application of the conditional exemption under s 47B of the FOI Act (Commonwealth-State relations) to some of the information in that document (which has been deleted to provide you access to the rest of the document).

*Please note that access to 1 of the 29 documents (Document 9), has been withheld until relevant third party review rights have run out.

All correspondence between the MDBA and NSW water that relates to $0 value transaction issues identified in this audit Water Trade Price Reporting*

*Noting:

1. NSW water includes both WaterNSW and NSW Department of Planning, Industry & Environment.
2. The timeframe to search for documents is from the beginning of the audit project until the FOI date, being: 01/05/2018 - 09/03/2020.
3. $0 value transaction issues refer to both the specific recommendations/information outlined in the audit and $0 value transaction issues outlined in part 2 of the Audit;
4. This request does not seek:
   
   1. personal information about non-Executive employees from Commonwealth agencies, State agencies and employees of private businesses; and
   2. names/identifying details of entities and individuals involved in specific trades (e.g. business names, Water Access Licence numbers etc.).

Full access granted to 7 documents.

Partial access granted to 6 documents.

Under the Freedom of Information Act I request the following documents from the Murray Darling Basin Authority. These documents relate to the authority's independent report, released in October 2018: "Potential impacts of groundwater Sustainable Diversion Limits and irrigation efficiency projects on river flow volume under the Murray-Darling Basin Plan." 

• I request all internal reports, briefings, memos and similar related to the authority's response to the recommendations contained in this report;
• All advice, either produced or received by the authority, related to the authority's ability to implement the recommendations in the report;
• In any instances where the authority declined to act on recommendations in the report, all advice concerning the reason not to do so; and
• In instances where the authority agreed to act on recommendations in the report, all progress updates and other reports detailing how these recommendations are being acted on.

Please note, to lessen the number of documents captured by this request, I would like to specifically exclude the content of emails (although please include any reports, briefings, memos and similar that are attached to emails).

Full access granted to 1 document.

Partial access granted to 4 documents.

Access to copies of emails sent or received between 24 July 2017 - 30 August 2017, and where the email address in part, contains:

• @nationals.org.au
• @liberal.org.au
• @vic.liberal.org.au
• @NSW.liberal.org.au
• @lnp.org.au

Full access granted to 1 document.

Partial access granted to 1 document.

External correspondence (excluding attachments, but including filenames/document titles of attachments) between Senior Executive Staff (SES) of the Murray–Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) and any staff of the following:

a. The Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources' Office; 
b. Cotton Australia; 
c. National Irrigators' Council; or 
d. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), 
that relate directly to: 
e. ABC's Four Corners program 'Pumped: Who's benefitting from the billions spent on the Murray-Darling?' sent or received from 24 July 2017 (the date the program aired) to 7 September 2018; 
f. ABC's Background Briefing 'Best laid plans: The Murray Darling Basin in crisis'(Parts 1, 2 and 3) from 27 April 2018 (the date the Part 1 was podcast) to 7 September 2018.

2. Final documents or correspondence submitted or sent by the MDBA as formal complaints to the ABC regarding any ABC program or report between 24 July 2017 and 7 September 2018.

Include only the final email in any complete email chain, so as to include at least one copy of each email within scope.

Exclude duplicate documents or documents which are publicly available.

Exclude any draft materials.

Exclude signatures, phone numbers and names of staff below SES.

Full access granted to 1 document.

Partial access granted to 8 documents.

Refuse access to 3 documents.

I request all modelling reports relating to Unimplemented Policy Measures and / or Pre-Requisite Policy Measures between 1 November 2013 and 30 June 2014. 

Please exclude any material that has been made previously available and identify where that information has been made available. 

Please exclude the names of any staff below Executive Level 2, and all signatures. Please exclude duplicates and include only the last complete email chain in each.

Full access granted to 6 documents.

Partial access granted to 14 documents.

I request all correspondence including all attachments sent between 7 November to 23 November 2016 where that correspondence refers to, had attached or was sent along with the draft or final Northern Basin Review report, and where that correspondence was sent to or received from:

• The Deputy Prime Minister’s Office
• The Assistant Minister for Agriculture and Water Resource’s Office
• Any staff of the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources
• The contractor engaged to assist with the Northern Basin Review

Please exclude any material that has been made previously available and identify where that information has been made available.

Please exclude the names of any staff below Executive Level 2, and all signatures.

Please exclude duplicates and include only the last complete email chain in each.

I refer to Question on Notice 165 of the Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation Committee, Additional estimates, March 2018 (here).

I request the documents that were attached to correspondence listed in this Question on Notice there named Attachments 3 and 4.

Please exclude the names of any staff below Executive Level 2, and all signatures.

Please exclude duplicates and include only the last complete email chain in each.

1. All emails sent in response to the email that is Document 33 (including all complete email chains sent by anyone in which that email was included);
2. Any other subsequent emails that related to the reports mentioned in Document 33, namely
   • FOI 90: Technical Report – Ecological Needs of Low Flows in the Barwon-Darling
   • Technical Report – Observed Flows in the Barwon-Darling A Hydrologic Investigation Include all attachments. Include only the final email in any email complete email chain, so as to include at least one copy of each email within scope.

Exclude duplicate documents or anything where the agency can indicate where it is publicly available.

Exclude signatures and phone numbers, and names of staff below EL2.

Full access granted to 4 documents.

Partial access granted to 38 documents.

Refuse access to 9 documents.

Under the FOI Act I request all documents created from 1 November 2016 to 22 March 2018 that are

a. reports, memos or briefings containing:

1. any analysis of observed (or actual or gauged) flows in the Northern Murray-Darling Basin and/or the Lower Darling;
2. any comparison of modelled flows to observed (or actual, or gauged) flows in the Northern Murray-Darling Basin and/or the Lower Darling;

correspondence in which the results of any analysis of observed flows, or comparison of observed with modelled flows, in the Northern Murray-Darling Basin and/or the Lower Darling, was provided to external stakeholders, including documents that were attached or sent along with that correspondence.

Full access granted to 34 documents.

Partial access granted to 28 documents.

Refuse access to 2 documents.

Under the FOI Act I request

a. Final hydrological modelling scenario outputs produced for "BP-2800" (MDBA (2012) Hydrologic modelling to inform the proposed Basin Plan: Methods and results), specifically daily volume by gauge for:

• Border Rivers,
• Gwydir,
• Namoi-Peel,
• Macquarie-Castlereagh and Bogan,
• Barwon-Darling,
• Paroo and Warrego.

All hydrological modelling outputs provided to Daren Barmah during 2016.

Full access granted to 1 document.

Partial access granted to 7 documents.

Under the FOI Act I request

a. all documents created between 1 January 2011 to 1 December 2016 that that include or refer to

1. The accreditation of the Barwon-Darling Cap Model;

The provisional accreditation of the Barwon-Darling Cap Model.

Full access granted to 7 documents.

Partial access granted to 85 documents.

Under the FOI Act I request documents created between January 2015 and 23 March 2018 that are:

a. the following:

• "Pre-Requisite Policy Measures Assessment Guidelines"
• All draft or final versions of any "Pre-Requisite Policy Measures Implementation Plan" for New South Wales and the River Murray;
• Any MDBA assessment of Pre-Requisite Policy Measures Implementation Plans for New South Wales and the River Murray;
• Any independent review of any MDBA assessment of Pre-Requisite Policy Measures Implementation Plans;
• Any final reports or briefings outlining results for the delivery of environmental water Multi-site environmental watering trials (also known as Large scale watering events, or Environmental watering activities) – excluding documents that refer only to the use of that water or ecological results without referring to the results of environmental water delivery;

b. all comments about the above documents (in part 1 of this request) provided to the MDBA by the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder (CEWH) or the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office (CEWO), and any documents referring to CEWH or CEWO responses;

any correspondence with the authors of any independent review of any MDBA assessment of Pre-Requisite Policy Measures Implementation Plans or the Pre-requisite Policy Measures Assessment Guidelines regarding those assessment – including the Terms of Reference, conduct of and content of those assessments and all attachments.

Partial access granted to 112 documents.

Refuse access to 2 documents.

Full access granted to 96 documents.

Partial access granted to 189 documents (s47F – personal privacy and s47B – Commonwealth-State relations).

Refuse access to 1 document (s47B – Commonwealth-State relations).

1. all versions of the Northern Basin Review Report, including where marked as draft or for consultation or under embargo or embargoed, that were created or sent by the MDBA in November 2016, and sent to people or agencies outside of the MDBA; and
2. any correspondence in November 2016 which had attached, was sent along with, or contains a link to any draft version of the Northern Basin Review Report, whether sent externally or not.

Full access granted to 3 documents.

Partial access granted to 34 documents (s47F – personal privacy).

1. All documents in relation to the introduction of the proposed amendment to the continuous accounting model (CAM) in the Border Rivers Water Management Area (as described in the provided information sheet -TRIM Ref D18/1987);
2. Documents, dated on or after 1 January 2016 in relation to any proposed amendment to:
   1. The Water Plan (Border Rivers) 2003;
   2. The Border Rivers Resource Operations Plan (in particular, section 250);
   3. The Resource Operations Licences which are subject to the Water Plan (Border Rivers) 2013 and the Border Rivers Resource Operations Plan; and
   4. The operations Manuals held pursuant to the Resource Operations Licences mentioned above;
3. Any modelling (hydrological or otherwise) in relation to the proposed amendment to the CAM in the Border Rivers Water Management Area (as described in the information sheet);
4. Any reports correspondence (including emails), notes or other documents in relation to hydrological or other modelling mentioned in item 3 above;
5. All documents in relation to the measurement of water flows in the Weir and Barwon river system (specifically in relation to the Newinga breakout and the Upper Newinga Breakout of Barwon water into the Weir River and vice versa, upstream of Worral Creek and downstream of measuring points in the Weir river) dated on or after January 1 1993;
6. Any submissions in relation to the Border Rivers Water Plan or Water Resource Plan to the Murray-Darling Basin Authority for Assessment pursuant to section 63 of the Water Act 2007 (Cth);
7. All documents in relation to the assessment of submissions made by, or on behalf of;
   1. Reardon Operations PTY LTD, Reardon Farms P/Ship, Reardon Farms Pty Ltd, JKM Partnership Pty Ltd, More Mud Pty Ltd, Kotaki Pty Ltd;
   2. Border Rivers Food and fibre; and/or
   3. Mr Owen Droop of OD Hydrology;
8. All documents in relation to data from the Jericho river gauge in the lower weir river, the Talwood gauge in the Lower weir river and the Kanowna gauge on the Barwon river;
9. All documents in relation to case 0605J and Node 096 (Newinga system files versus Newinga rating); and
10. All documents regarding modelling done by Rod Dew or other Hydrologists in the named areas and timeframe.

11 documents released in full.

31 documents released in part.

11 documents released in full.

9 documents released in part.

12 documents released in full.

5 documents released in part.

1. Copies of any agenda papers prepared for Murray-Darling Basin Commission meetings 25 to 70 that relate to water market reform.
2. Copies of any agenda papers prepared for Murray-Darling Basin Ministerial Council meetings 11 to 30 that relate to water market reform.
3. Extracts from minutes of Murray-Darling Basin Commission meetings 25 to 70 when trade or property rights are mentioned in relation to the implementation of the Cap. If the reference is substantive, a copy of the relevant agenda paper should be provided.
4. A copy of Appendix B from an MDBC paper entitled 'An Audit of Water use in the Murray-Darling Basin - Water use and healthy rivers – Working towards a Balance – June 1995.

37 documents released in full.

16 documents released in part.

Correspondence and documents relating to the Northern Basin review and specific organisations between 22 November 2015 and 22 November 2016.

Meeting notes and minutes in relation to the Northern Basin Review public consultation process.

64 documents released in full.

119 documents released in part.

197 documents released in full.

372 documents released in part.

56 documents released in full.

29 documents released in part.

1. Copies of documents relating to the Northern Basin review, sent by Namoi Water and subsequently received by the Murray–Darling Basin Authority.

2. Copies of documents relating to matters raised by Namoi Water to the Murray–Darling Basin Authority regarding the Northern Basin Review, originating between 1 July 2016 and 22 November 2016.

47 documents released in full.

71 documents released in part.

1. Copies of documents which record communications between the Murray-Darling Basin Authority and the State Water Corporation in relation to water releases at the Hume Dam, Edwards River, or Stevens Weir during specific periods from September 2010 to July 2012.
2. Copies of documents which record communications between the Murray-Darling Basin Authority and the State Water Corporation in relation to the impact or potential impact of water releases at the Hume Dam between 1 August 2010 to 1 November 2012 inclusive on the Stevens Weir Fishway Project.

13 documents released in full.

10 documents released in part.

Documents held by the Authority in relation to environmental flow releases from the Hume Reservoir from beginning of August 2010 to end of February 2011 inclusive which specify:

1. Dates of each environmental flow release for the period specified.
2. The volumes of environmental flows measured in megalitres for flows at both the Hume Dam (Hume releases) and official recordings downstream of Yarrawonga Storage.
3. The volumes of environmental flows and the volumes of natural river (base case) flows during the periods stated.
4. The source of the environmental flows, for example, which environmental parcels of water was used and which authority had responsibility for the parcels of water used for environmental flows.
5. How decisions on environmental flows were made and what specific environmental outcome was sought.
6. Any communications between river operators and environmental water managers in relation to actual release of environmental flows which indicate:
   1. what the objectives for the releases were;
   2. what led to the release decisions;
   3. what flow rates resulted from the decisions;
   4. who made the decisions;
   5. whose water it was.

7 documents were released in full.

42 documents were released in part.

Documents held by the Authority in relation to copies of all final reports and/or advice provided as a result of the following consultancies, as identified in Attachment A of the answer to Question on Notice 171 asked through the Senate Standing Committee on Environment and Communications May 2012 Budget Estimates in the Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities portfolio:

1.  Sinclair Knight Merz Pty Ltd – Assessing the consistency of interim and transitional water resource lans and state legislation against the proposed Basin Plan water trading rules.
2. Maywald Consultants Pty Ltd – Advice on MDBA engagement with South Australian stakeholders.
3. Sinclair Knight Merz Pty Ltd – An assessment of the costs and benefits of integrating the functions and assets of the Border Rivers Commission in to the Murray –Darling Basin Authority.
4. Anthony S Blunn – Conflict advisory services for members of the Murray-Darling Basin Authority.
5. KPMG – Expert assistance to deliver an estimate of States implementation costs.

1 document released in full.

2 documents released in part.

Documents held by the Authority in relation to:

1. Executive-level reports or analysis conducted by or for the Authority, or received by the Authority, on the capacity of South Australian water users to achieve further water savings by the following means:
   1. More efficient irrigation infrastructure;
   2. More efficient water delivery infrastructure (eg enclosing open channels as pipelines);
   3. NOT elimination of evaporation in naturally occurring lakes, billabongs, wetlands or river or creek channels.
2. Outcomes of the same analysis conducted concerning New South Wales and Victoria respectively; 
3. Estimates or actual amounts that the Authority is aware of that have been paid by the Federal Government since 1 January 2008 to each State for the type of savings described in point 1 above.

1 document released in full.

1 document released in part.

Documents held by the Authority in relation to Schedule E Protocol of the Murray-Darling Basin Agreement – Access, Exit and Termination Fees:

1. Who it is binding to.
2. Who was meant to monitor, report and enforce the agreement.
3. Who was involved in the drafting of the agreement.
4. Minutes of all the meetings involved with the drafting and finalising of the agreement.
5. All documents to support/ show how the document was formulated.    
6. Any other documents to support whether Infrastructure operators have to abide by the agreement.

20 documents released in full.

104 documents released in part.

Documents held by the Authority in relation to:

1. Letters sent or received after the publication of the Guide to the Proposed Basin Plan, between the Murray-Darling Basin Authority and any government of a Basin State (including Ministers thereof) regarding revising groundwater sustainable diversion limits contained in the Guide to the Proposed Basin Plan;
2. Any correspondence sent or received between 1st October 2010 and 14th May 2012, between the Murray-Darling Basin Authority and any mining company, representative of a mining company or mining industry association regarding groundwater sustainable diversion limits; and
3. Any correspondence sent by the current Chair of the Murray Darling Basin Authority to staff, Authority members or the Basin Community Committee regarding surface water sustainable diversion limits; and
4. Any letters sent after the publication of the Guide to the Proposed Basin Plan by previous Chairs of the Murray Darling Basin Authority to staff, Authority members or the Basin Community Committee regarding surface water sustainable diversion limits; and
5. Advice sent in April 2012 from the Basin Community Committee (or the Chair thereof) to the Authority (or the Chair thereof), regarding the Proposed Basin Plan.

10 documents released in full.

12 documents released in part.

1 document released in full.

1 document released in part.

Documents held by the Authority in relation to the Review of the MDBA "Ecologically Sustainable Level of Take" Method for the Basin Plan:

1. A copy of the Basin Plan as follows "Deliver a draft review report to MDBA for comment by early July 2011 accompanied by a briefing on the draft findings to members of the Authority Board and senior executive."

In relation to system/operating constraints which impact on the ability to deliver environmental flows:

2. A copy of any report listing the constraints factored into the modelling of the Environmentally Sustainable Level of Take and description of each constraint.

Documents held by the Authority in relation to the Terms of Reference for all studies commissioned by the Authority into socio-economic impacts of (including benefits arising from) the Basin Plan and associated water reforms; and

Reports from any completed studies into socio-economic impacts of (including benefits arising from) the Basin Plan and associated water reforms that are not published.

One document released in full.

14 released in part.

34 documents released in full.

12 documents in part.

Documents held by the Murray-Darling Basin Authority in relation to independent advice provided to the Authority, as per decision 62 of Meeting 26 of the Murray-Darling Basin Authority on 7 December 2010 listed in minutes provided as Attachment C to the answer to Question on Notice 26 asked through the Senate Standing Committee on Environment and Communications February 2011 Additional Estimates in the Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities portfolio by:

1. The Executive Director, Natural Resource Management, on whether the environmental objectives, and therefore flow regimes, at each of the 108 hydrologic sites are appropriate; and
2. The Executive Director, River Murray, on whether the additional environmental water identified by region is practically able to be delivered at the end of these catchments in a way that supports environmental objectives.

2 documents released in full.

1 document in part.

2 documents released in full.

54 released in part.

2 documents released in full.

1 document in part.

1. September 2010 Incoming Minister's Brief.
2. September 24, 2010 Basin Plan Briefing – Rob Freeman meeting with Tony Burke.
3. September 14, 2010 Letter and accompanying brief from Michael Taylor to the Hon Tony Burke MP.