Panel Reports and Document Library

The Panel has provided the Minister for Resources, Water and Northern Australia the Hon. Keith Pitt with their Final Report on Thursday 30 April, 2020. It is now available on the website homepage.

For all other documentation relating to the Panel's work, please see below.

Panel's Final Report

• Final Report (Accessible) 15,046KB.pdf
• Summary Report (Accessible) 6,413KB.pdf
• Technical Report (Accessible) 2,628KB.pdf

Commissioned Research and research to support the Panel's work

Literature Reviews

• CSIRO Literature Review- Community Adaptation and Resilience (840 KB) (pdf)
• MJA Literature Review- Economic Assessments of Basin communities, and Basin water reforms (1.68 MB) (pdf)
• NATSEM Literature Review- Economic Policy and Conditions in the MDB (2.19 MB) (pdf)
• University of Canberra Literature Review – Wellbeing Resilience and Adaptive Capacity (1.15MB) (pdf)

Modelling Reports

• Wittwer Report - Modelling variants of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan in the context of adverse conditions in the Basin (2.78 MB) (pdf)
• ABARES Report - Future Scenarios For Southern Murray Darling Basin (2.5 MB) (pdf)
• Schirmer SEAP - Thriving, surviving, or declining communities: socioeconomic change in Murray-Darling Basin communities 2020 (5.08 MB) (pdf)

Case Study Reports

• Case Study- Recreational Fishing (630 KB) (pdf)
• Case Study Rice Industry (1.52 MB) (pdf)
• Case Study Horticulture below the Barmah Choke (2.05 MB) (pdf)
• Case Study Dairy Industry (1.7 MB) (pdf)
• Case Study Cotton Industry (1.41 MB) (pdf)
• Case Study- Recreational Boating (958 KB) (pdf)

Trends and Drivers

• Trends and Drivers- Indigenous Water (758 KB) (pdf)
• Trends and Drivers- Basin Urban Water (924 KB) (pdf)
• Trends and Drivers- Northern Basin MJA ABARES Supplementary Commentary (853 KB) (pdf)

Panel's Draft Report 16 March 2020

• Draft Report (3.73 MB) (pdf)

Panel's Progress Report December 2019

• Independent Social and Economic Assessment Panel - Progress Report December 2019 (1.42 MB) (pdf)

Submissions

• Submissions received on the Terms of Reference - Link
• Submissions received on the Panel's Draft Report - Link

Media and supporting documents

• Media Release - Minister Releases Final Basin Socio-Economic Assessment Panel Report 611KB.pdf
• MEDIA RELEASE Panel extends submission deadline (261 KB) (pdf)
• MEDIA RELEASE Additional call for Submissions 31032020 (340 KB) (pdf)
• MEDIA RELEASE Independent Panel Draft Report 15032020 (246 KB) (pdf)
• Media release - Panel releases progress report sharing ‘lived experiences’ of Murray-Darling Basin communities (240 KB) (docx)
• Media release- Independent Panel Completes Listening Tour (236 KB) (docx)
• Media release- Independent Panel sets ambitious public feedback schedule (237 KB) (docx)
• Media Release - Still time to have your say (205 KB) (pdf)
• Bruce Simpson - Rice Growers Association Annual Conference Presentation 2 August 2019 (169 KB) (pdf)
• Open Letter to Basin Communities Inviting Feedback (285 KB) (pdf)
• Media release- proposed assessment framework out to communities for feedback and ideas (833 KB) (pdf)
• Media release - Independent panel meets to begin work to assess Social and Economic Conditions in the Murray-Darling Basin (871 KB) (pdf)
• The Hon David Littleproud media release: Independent Panel holds first meeting on Basin socio-economic impacts (81 KB) (pdf)