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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.

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.

In this Newsroom series, we’re delving deeper into the characteristics, industry and people that make up the 22 individual catchments of the Basin and why they’re so special.

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.

This water resource plan is the prevailing management plan for the surface water resources in the Lachlan water resource plan (WRP) area. The plan was accredited by the Australian Government Minister as being consistent with the Basin Plan and commenced on 18 May 2024.

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.

From 27 February to 1 March, Authority Chair Sir Angus Houston, Chief Executive Andrew McConville, and Authority member Jane Doolan led the first MDBA tour of 2024, meeting with people in the northern Basin.

Year after year, Lake Brewster in the lower Lachlan is proving to be the most important inland nesting site for pelicans.