Helen Dalton MP

Independent Member for Murray

Closes 11.59pm AEST Monday 31 August 2026
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Have your say on the Water Act

The Water Act 2007 is the law that sits above the Murray Darling Basin Plan, and for the first time in over a decade it is being independently reviewed. Whatever the reviewer recommends is what the next generation of water policy gets built on, so this is the moment to say what has gone wrong and what has to change.

The review is being run by Independent Reviewer Geoff Leeper and his final report goes to the Minister for Water in February 2027. Anyone can make a submission, you do not need to be an expert and you do not need a lawyer.

How this works

  1. Tick the changes you support. Each one is written for you and is already matched to the official question the review is asking.
  2. Add a few details about who you are and how the river affects you.
  3. Download your submission as a file, or copy it, then we open the government portal for you to lodge it.

It takes about five minutes. Your details never leave your device, nothing is sent to us and nothing is stored anywhere. The tool builds the document in your browser and you lodge it yourself.

Choose the changes you support

Tick everything you agree with. The wording underneath each one goes into your submission, filed under the official question it answers so the reviewer has to deal with it.

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Your details

The review publishes submissions with the author's name unless you ask them not to. Nothing here is sent to Helen's office.

The review asks for this so it can group submissions.
Optional, and the single most powerful part of any submission. Two or three sentences in your own words about your farm, your town, your family or your business beats any amount of policy language. Say what you have watched happen.

Your submission

This is written in the structure the review asked for, answering its own numbered questions. Read it over and change anything you want in your own words before you lodge it.



  
Which one do I use?
The portal lets you upload a file or type straight into the box. Downloading the file is the safest option because nothing gets lost if the page times out. Copying the text works too if you would rather paste it in.

Last step

The government portal opens in a new tab. Agree to the privacy statement, then either upload the file you just downloaded or paste your text in.

If the button is blocked, go to
consult.dcceew.gov.au/water-act-review/submission

One more thing that matters

Submissions get counted. A hundred from the same stretch of river is a lot harder to file away than one, so send this to the people you farm beside, the people you went to school with and anyone in town whose job depends on water.

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