Accountability and reporting

We are committed to good and transparent governance. Here you will find information about our planning, reporting and other documentation about our business. 

Corporate publications

• Portfolio budget statements
  From October 2022 our budget statement is published by the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. The budget statement provides information on our Commonwealth funding and how we will use our allocated funds each financial year. Prior budget statements from past years are available on the National Library's Trove website.
• Corporate plans
  We update our corporate plan each year to set out our goals, the strategies we will use to achieve them and how we will measure our performance. It is our primary planning document for the next 4-year period.
• Annual reports
  Annual reports include information on MDBA’s performance and financial management for each financial year.

Mandatory reporting

• Executive remuneration
  We provide an annual update on the remuneration paid to our Executives.
• List of MDBA files
  Every 6 months we produce and publish an indexed list of titles for files that we create. These lists are required by Senate Order.
• Accountable Authority gifts and benefits declaration
  We publish information about gifts or benefits received by the Chief Executive of the Murray–Darling Basin Authority.

Our submissions

• Submissions by the Murray–Darling Basin Authority
  Our submissions to Commissions of Inquiry, Senate Committees and the Productivity Commission.

Requesting information from us

• Freedom of information
  Access our Freedom of Information (FOI) disclosure log or find out how to make an FOI request.
• Information publication scheme
  The Information Publication Scheme (IPS) is part of the Freedom of Information Act 2016. Read our IPS Agency plan and access documents that we publish under the IPS.

Reporting to us

• Public interest disclosure
  We have authorised officers to whom an incidence of wrongdoing can be reported under the Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013.
• Complaints Management and Procedures guideline
  This guideline comprises the Murray–Darling Basin Authority’s Complaints Management and Procedures Guideline and has been designed to assist both complainants and staff.

Policies and governance

• Audit Committee charter
  The Audit Committee provides us with independent advice and assurance. The Committee’s charter reviews the appropriateness of our financial and performance reporting and internal systems for risk management and internal control.
• Fraud control policy
  Our practices in controlling fraud risks, and how to make a confidential report to our Fraud Control Officer.
• Management of conflicts of interest
  Our policy for how we identify, disclose and manage conflicts of interest.
• Procedures for determining APS Code of Conduct breaches
  How we determine if a past or present MDBA employee has breached the APS Code of Conduct.

Reviews of water management in the Basin

• Independent reviews of water management and the Basin Plan
• Independent Assessment of Social and Economic conditions in the Basin
• Interim Inspector General’s Report: 'Impact of lower inflows on state shares under the MDB Agreement'
• Lower lakes Independent Review
• Independent Panel assessment of fish deaths in the Lower Darling
• Productivity Commission Five-year review into the Basin Plan