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Hear from Regional Engagement Officer (REO) Peter Thomas on the conversations, opportunities, and new connections from two of the Basin’s largest catchments.

Explore the unique conversations and opportunities between the northern and southern Basin with Regional Engagement Officers (REOs) Annabelle Guest and Kate Bartlett.

A fogbow just north of the Basin town of Tuena, New South Wales features in the Bureau of Meterology’s 2025 weather calendar.

Last month, Murray–Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) Chief Executive Andrew McConville, Regional Engagement Officer Peter Thomas, and Authority members Susan Madden and Stuart Bunn led the third MDBA tour of 2024.

Each month we sit down and have a chat with one of our 6 Regional Engagement Officers (REOs) across the Basin. This month we caught up with Peter Thomas, the representative of the Lachlan and Macquarie–Castlereagh catchments.

More than 100 people joined us for our first public webinar for the Basin Plan Review to hear our experts unpack the Early Insights Paper. If you missed it or want a recap, here’s everything you need to know, including all the answers to our audience Q&A.

This water resource plan is the prevailing management plan for the surface water resources in the Macquarie-Castlereagh water resource plan (WRP) area. The plan was accredited by the Australian Government Minister as being consistent with the Basin Plan and commenced on 19 June 2024.

After a series of listening tours and meeting with more than 200 First Nations people in the northern Basin, the message is overwhelmingly clear: we need to work better and walk forward together, to achieve better outcomes for communities and rivers for generations.

Annabelle Guest has lived and worked in northern New South Wales (NSW) for more than 30 years and is also celebrating 6 years as a Regional Engagement Officer (REO) in the Namoi and Gwydir catchments.

This year Regional Engagement Officer (REO) Peter celebrates 6 incredible years in his role in the Basin. His presence in the Macquarie–Castlereagh and Lachlan catchments has been key to the Murray–Darling Basin Authority’s (MDBA) ongoing connections with communities.