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The Murray–Darling Basin Authority held its scheduled monthly meeting on Thursday, 13 October, 2016, in Canberra with all six Authority members in attendance.

Goondiwindi now has its own weather station thanks to a Murray–Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) project that gives locals a full picture of conditions so they can plan for the future.

The Murray–Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) was established to implement and monitor the Basin Plan — a plan that is about ensuring a healthy and productive river system for future generations.

The Barmah–Millewa Forest bush bird surveys in 2016-17 identified a total of 61 woodland bird species in the survey plots. Species were recorded from both the survey plots and the adjoining habitat. There were 1221 individual birds recorded from across twenty sites in the Barmah–Millewa Forest.

Trading water from above the Barmah Choke to below the choke will continue to be restricted into the 2016–17 water year.

The Murray–Darling Basin Ministerial Council met in Brisbane today to discuss progress towards major milestones in the implementation of the Basin Plan.

Some benefits are already evident, such as early successes in environmental watering at a Basin scale. Other work is ongoing, including developing measures to evaluate the effects of the Basin Plan on communities, exploring how to address physical and operational constraints to delivering environmental water, and learning more about environmental water needs in the northern Basin.

The second full report on how state and Commonwealth agencies are tracking to implement the Murray–Darling Basin Plan was released today.

In June 2015, the Australian Senate set up a select committee to look at the Murray–Darling Basin Plan.

This Regulation Impact Statement has been prepared with respect to the Murray–Darling Basin Plan (the "Basin Plan"), which is required under the Water Act 2007.