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Term
Definition
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Source
Created
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The term ‘
First Nations people’ is generally preferred,
rather than Aboriginal people or Indigenous people.
However, 'Aboriginal people' is preferred over 'Indigenous
people'.
MDBA First Nations cultural
Definition;#Preferred
Cultural protocols;#Whole of
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Aboriginal people(s)
protocols and style guide
term
Government
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acronyms and style guide
sulfate not sulphate.
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acid sulfate soils
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
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acronyms and style guide
Generally in government writing, do not use acronyms –
spel out in ful .
But if you do use anacronym write it out in full when
using for the first time in a document section, followed
by the acronym in brackets.
Example
There were 600 gigalitres (GL) of water for the current
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A
acronyms
year. In future years, 500 GL is expected.
Acronym
Whole of Government
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Capitalise when referring to legislation. See 'legislation'.
Example
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A
Act
The Water Act.
Spel ing or punctuation Whole of Government
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acronyms and style guide
Write as title case, each word in the name starts with an
upper case letter. Use
hyphen, not en dash.
However when referring to the MDBA office location write
Spel ing or
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Albury-Wodonga
as 'Wodonga Office'. See 'regional office'.
punctuation;#Places
MDBA style
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acronyms and style guide
An MDBA policy / report / initiative. Not 'a' MDBA policy.
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an MDBA
Spel ing or punctuation Whole of Government
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acronyms and style guide
Australian Government Style
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A
appendices
Not 'appendixes'.
Manual
Spel ing or punctuation Whole of Government
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acronyms and style guide
average recurrence interval
All lower case, unless at the start of a sentence. As for
allacronyms in a document, spell out the term the first
time followed by the acronym in brackets.
Example
The average recurrence interval (ARI) is the average
Acronym;#Water
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ARI
time period between floods of a certain size.
management 101
MDBA style
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acronyms and style guide
The Authority is comprised of the Chair, Chief Executive,
Indigenous member and 4-part time members appointed
by the Governor-General. The MDBA is the statutory
agency which supports the Authority.Use ‘6-member
Authority’ when referring to the governing body.
Use ‘the MDBA’ for the agency known as the
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A
Authority
Murray–Darling Basin Authority.
Acronym;#Definition
MDBA style
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OFFICIAL
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OFFICIAL#
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
Write out in ful when using for the first time in a document
section, fol owed by the acronym in brackets.
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A
ABS
Acronym
Whole of Government
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Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource
Economics and Sciences (ABARES).ABARES is the
science and economics research division of the
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry.
Write out in ful when using for the first time in a document
section, fol owed by the acronym in brackets.
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A
ABARES
Acronym
MDBA style
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acronyms and style guide
Write airspace as one word, not air space.
Airspace releases are important to help mitigate the risk
of flooding.
Spel ing or
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A
airspace
punctuation;#Definition MDBA style
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acronyms and style guide
Lower case unless used in a name, for example Great
Darling Anabranch.An anabranch is a section of the river
Spel ing or
that diverts from the main channel and re-joins further
punctuation;#Definition
downstream.
;#Water management
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anabranch
101
MDBA style
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acronyms and style guide
For the purpose of the 2025 Basin Plan Evaluation,
actions under the Basin
actions of the Basin Plan are described in line with the
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A
Plan
‘Parts’ within the Chapters of the Basin Plan.
Definition
Technical
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acronyms and style guide
Components of each project that need to be completed.
Discrete pieces of work with an articulated purpose,
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activity
scope timing and dependencies.
Definition
Technical
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Total quantity of water actual y taken from the water
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actual take
resources of a water resource plan area during a water
Definition
Technical
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The annual volume of water to which the holder of an
access license is entitled as recorded in the water
Water management
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allocation
allocation account for the license.
101;#Definition
Technical
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acronyms and style guide
Australian Government
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A
AG
Write in ful , don't use acronym.
Acronym
Whole of Government
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Australian Government Security Vetting Agency
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A
AGSVA
AGSVA website
Acronym
Whole of Government
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Assistant Secretary
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A
AS
Acronym
Whole of Government
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acronyms and style guide
Australian Asset Engineering
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A
AAE
Acronym
MDBA style
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OFFICIAL
#
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Accountable Authority Instructions
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A
AAI's
Acronym
MDBA style
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acronyms and style guide
Australian Centre for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
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A
ACEAS
Acronym
MDBA style
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American Council of Engineering Companies
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A
ACEC
Acronym
MDBA style
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Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Assessment Report
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A
ACHAR
Acronym
MDBA style
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MDBA’s Advisory Committee on Social, Economic and
Environmental Sciences
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A
ACSEES
Acronym
MDBA style
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additional dilution flow
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ADF
Acronym
MDBA style
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alternative downstream flow options
(Koondrook–Perricoota)
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ADFO
Acronym
MDBA style
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active environmental water
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AEW
Acronym
MDBA style
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Aboriginal Environmental Water Guidance – Aboriginal
Employment Working Group
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A
AEWG
Acronym
DCCEEW
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acronyms and style guide
Asset group information
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AGI
Acronym
MDBA style
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acronyms and style guide
Aboriginal Heritage Impact Permit
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A
AHIP
Acronym
MDBA style
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acronyms and style guide
Adjustment Implementation Committee
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AIC
Acronym
MDBA style
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Aboriginal Heritage Information Management System
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AHIMS
Acronym
MDBA style
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acronyms and style guide
Asset Management Advisory Panel (SCAs come together 6
weekly)
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AMAP
Acronym
MDBA style
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acronyms and style guide
Asset Management Improvement Scoping Study
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AMISS
Acronym
MDBA style
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asset management system
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AMS
Acronym
Whole of Government
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Australia and New Zealand Environment and Conservation
Council
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ANZECC
Acronym
MDBA style
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acronyms and style guide
Average Recurrence Interval (in relation to rainfall)
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ARI
Acronym
MDBA style
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Agency Security Advisor
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ASA
Acronym
Whole of Government
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Asset Solutions and Delivery business unit
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A
AS&D
Acronym
MDBA style
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acronyms and style guide
Agency Security Plan
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ASP
Acronym
Whole of Government
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Aboriginal Waterways Assessment initiative
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AWA
Acronym
DCCEEW
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Aboriginal Water Entitlements Program
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A
AWEP
Acronym
DCCEEW
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Write as title case, each word in the name starts with an
upper case letter. Use
en dash between 'Barwon' and
'Darling' not a hyphen.
Spel ing or
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B
Barwon–Darling
punctuation;#Places
MDBA style
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Spel ing or
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B
bankful flow
All lower case.
punctuation;#Preferred MDBA style
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Write as title case, each word in the name starts with an
upper case letter and when referring to 'the Choke'.
Spel ing or
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B
Barmah Choke
See 'Barmah–Mil ewa Reach'.
punctuation;#Places
MDBA style
25/10/2023 14:42 Item
acronyms and style guide
Write as title case, each word in the name starts with an
upper case letter. Use
en dash between 'Barmah' and
'Mil ewa' not a hyphen.
Spel ing or
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B
Barmah–Mil ewa
punctuation;#Places
MDBA style
25/10/2023 14:43 Item
acronyms and style guide
Write as title case, each word in the name starts with an
upper case letter. Use
en dash between 'Barmah' and
Spel ing or
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B
Barmah–Mil ewa Forest
'Mil ewa' not a hyphen.
punctuation;#Places
MDBA style
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#
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Write as lower case in generic use, but upper case in
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B
barrage
name
Use
e s '
n Ewe I
dash slan
be d
tw Bar
een rage'
'Barw etc.
on' and 'Darling' not a
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
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hyphen.Apply a '
space'
en dash and '
space' between
Barwon–Darling – Lower
valley names.
Spel ing or
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B
Darling valley
punctuation;#Places
MDBA style
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acronyms and style guide
Always upper case 'B', including 'whole-of-Basin'; the
Basin.
The Murray–Darling Basin is in Australia's south-east. It is
a system of interconnected rivers and lakes. More than
2.3 mil ion people live in the Basin, including people from
over 50 different First Nations. The Basin is home to 16
internationally significant wetlands, 35 endangered
Basin, the Basin,
species and 120 waterbird species.
Spel ing or
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B
Murray–Darling Basin
Write as title case, each word in the name starts with an
punctuation;#Places
Whole of Government
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upper case letter.
The Basin Community Committee (BCC) consists of
members of the Basin community, and is one of the
governance committees for the Murray–Darling Basin. The
BCC has a chair and up to 16 members, including one
Basin Community
Authority member.
Basin Community Committee,
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B
Committee
MDBA website
Acronym;#Definition
MDBA style
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acronyms and style guide
Use 'Basin governments' only when referring to the
Australian Government
plus all 5 Basin state
governments.
When referring to the Australian Government and state
and territory governments, use the following convention:
The Australian Government and the governments of New
South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and
the Australian Capital Territory.
See 'Basin state governments' when referring only to state
governments excluding the Australian Government. Basin
state governments includes the ACT (no need to write
state and territory governments).
Whole of
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B
Basin governments
Definition
Government;#Technical
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Write as title case, each word in the name starts with an
upper case letter.The Basin Officials Committee (BOC)
consists of officials from the 6 Basin governments (that is
all state governments plus the Australian Government).
Basin Officials Committee,
Water management
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B
Basin Officials Committee
MDBA website
101;#Acronym
MDBA style
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OFFICIAL
#
OFFICIAL#
The
Basin Plan 2012 was adopted by the minister under
section 44 (as amended from time to time) of the
Water
Act 2007 (Cth). The Basin Plan is Commonwealth
legislation, made under Part 2 of the Water Act.
Write '
Basin Plan 2012 ' as title case and italics and
subsequently refer to as ‘the Basin Plan’ or 'the Plan'
depending on sentence context.
The aim of the Basin Plan is to ensure that water is shared
between all users, including the environment, in a
sustainable way.
Spel ing or
punctuation;#Water
The Water
Read about thekey elements of the Basin Plan on the
Federal Register of Legislation management
Act;#Technical;#The Basin
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B
Basin Plan 2012
MDBA website.
> Basin Plan 2012
101;#Definition
Plan
26/10/2023 8:03 Item
acronyms and style guide
Write ‘Basin state governments’instead of ‘Basin states’
or ‘Basin jurisdictions’. This term is defined in the Water
Act to include the Australian Capital Territory.
See 'Basin governments' when referring to the Basin state
governments
plus the Australian Government.
Definition;#Preferred
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B
Basin state governments
term
Technical;#The Water Act
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blue-green algae, blue-
blue-green algae uses a
hyphen not an en-dash.
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B
green algal bloom
All lower case unless starting a sentence.
Spel ing or punctuation Whole of Government
26/10/2023 8:07 Item
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Write as title case, each word in the name starts with an
upper case letter.
Spel ed 'Bokhara' not Bokara.
Spel ing or
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B
Bokhara River
punctuation;#Places
MDBA style
26/10/2023 8:09 Item
acronyms and style guide
Do not use ‘and’ or ‘or’ after the second last item in the
list. Do not use commas.
Australian Government Style
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B
Bulletpoint lists
Manual
Spel ing or punctuation Whole of Government
26/10/2023 8:12 Item
acronyms and style guide
Write as title case, each word in the name starts with an
upper case letter. Include the First Nation's name in
Brewarrina Fish Traps
brackets.
Spel ing or
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B
(Baiame’s Ngunnhu)
punctuation;#Places
MDBA style
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acronyms and style guide
BasinView is an MDBA geographic information system
which was released in 2021. It is available publicly on the
MDBA website.
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B
BasinView
Write BasinView as one word, not Basin View.
BasinView monitoring tool
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
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Use
hyphen, not en dash. When referring to the
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B
Basin-wide
Murray–Darling Basin, always upper case Basin.
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
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OFFICIAL
#
OFFICIAL#
The Barmah–Mil ewa Reach, or the narrowest part of it,
has often been referred to as the ‘Barmah Choke’ or 'the
Narrows' by the Yorta Yorta people. It is made up of 3 key
flow constriction points:the Tocumwal Chokethe Barmah
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B
Barmah–Mil ewa Reach
Choketh
Write
e
as ' Ed
20 w
25ard C
Basi h
n oke.
Plan Evaluation'.
Definition;#Places
Technical
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Under the Basin Plan, the Authority is required to
undertake a 5-yearly evaluation of progress and
effectiveness of the implementation of the Plan. The Basin
Plan sets out key evaluation questions that wil be
answered in a public report. The Basin Plan Review must
2025 Basin Plan
be informed by an evaluation.
Water management
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B
Evaluation
101;#Definition
Technical;#The Basin Plan
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Baseline diversion limit (BDL) means the baseline limit of
take from a sustainable diversion limit (SDL) resource
unit.
The baseline limit is:
For a surface water SDL resource unit – the quantity of
water calculated in accordance with column 2 of the table
in Basin Plan Schedule 3 for that SDL resource unit.
For a
groundwater SDL resource unit – the quantity of water
calculated in accordance with column 3 of the table in
Basin Plan Schedule 4 for that SDL resource unit.
The baseline generally reflects the limit on the level of
take at 30 June 2009. It is a combination of limits
established by state law (for example existing water
resource plan limits) or limits established by the Cap
arrangements, and defined levels of take where there are
Definition;#Water
baseline diversion limit
no established limits.
management
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B
(BDL)
101;#Acronym
The Basin Plan;#Technical
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Provides focused advice, recommendations and
decisions where required relating to the overarching
delivery as informed by status reporting from the Basin
Plan Review Program Management Office (BPR PMO),
Basin Plan Review
strategy and resourcing of key products.
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B
Executive Board (BPR EB)
Definition
Technical
21/11/2023 18:12 Item
acronyms and style guide
Chapter 5 of the Basin Plan sets out the management
objectives and outcomes to be achieved by the Basin
Plan. Chapter 5 makes further reference to objectives,
Basin Plan objectives and outcomes and targets, specifically those in:Part 2 of
Water management
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B
outcomes
Chapter 8Part 3 of Chapter 9 Part 2 of Chapter 7.
MDBA website
101;#Definition
The Basin Plan;#Technical
21/11/2023 18:21 Item
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OFFICIAL
#
OFFICIAL#
Under the
Water Act 2007 (Cth), the Authority is required
to review the Basin Plan in 2026.
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B
Basin Plan Review (BPR)
Acronym;#Definition
Technical;#The Water Act
21/11/2023 18:37 Item
acronyms and style guide
The Authority is required to publish a final report of the
results of the 2026 Basin Plan Review. The report wil
detail the MDBA’s view on the Basin Plan and may
recommend changes for adaptive management of the
2026 Basin Plan Review: Basin’s water resources into the future.
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B
Final Report
Definition
Technical
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acronyms and style guide
Water in the Basin is managed across 4 states and a
territory, covering 1 million square kilometres. The
Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder (CEWH)
manages the Australian Government’s water entitlements
and allocations of water for the environment.
The Australian Government minister responsible for water
accredits the states’ water resource plans, which set the
local rules for water use.
Basin state governments manage the water in their own
area, in line with nationally agreed principles and plans.
The Australian Government Department of Climate
Change, Energy, the Environment and Water recovers
water to achieve the outcomes of the Basin Plan.
The MDBA is a key agency responsible for coordinating
how the Basin’s water resources are managed through the
Basin Plan Review, the
Basin Plan, and uses an approach, based on evidence,
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B
role of states
that considers the health of the Basin as a whole.
Definition
Technical
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acronyms and style guide
Given meaning by section 24(1) of the
Water Act 2007
(Cth) and requires the Authority (and the Minister), in
exercising its functions and powers under Part 2 Division
1, must act on the basis of best available scientific
knowledge and socio-economic analysis.
best available information See 'social and economic' (this is the preferred term
and socio-economic
rather than socio-economic').
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B
analysis
Definition
Technical
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OFFICIAL
#
OFFICIAL#
Avoid writing 'Basin states'. Use ‘Basin state
governments’ instead of ‘Basin states’ or ‘Basin
jurisdictions’. This term is defined in the Water Act to
include the Australian Capital Territory.
See 'Basin governments' when referring to the Basin state
governments
plus the Australian Government.
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B
Basin states
Inactive
MDBA style
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Branch Head (previously Assistant Secretary)
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B
BH
Acronym
Whole of Government
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Basin Community Committee
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B
BCC
Acronym
MDBA style
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Biodiversity Conservation Department - old NSW OECD
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B
BCD
Acronym
MDBA style
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Baseline Diversion Limit
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B
BDL
Acronym
MDBA style
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Barkinji and Maraura Elders Council
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B
BMEC
Acronym
MDBA style
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Barrage Operating Advisory Group
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B
BOAG
Acronym
MDBA style
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Basin Officials Committee
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B
BOC
Acronym
MDBA style
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BOC Alternatives
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B
BOCA
Acronym
MDBA style
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BOC Principles
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B
BOCP
Acronym
MDBA style
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Basin Plan Implementation Committee
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B
BPIC
Acronym
MDBA style
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Basin Plan Monitoring and Evaluation
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B
BPME
Acronym
MDBA style
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Commonwealth Budget Process Operating Rules
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B
BPOR
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 10:59 Item
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Blackwater Risk Assessment Model
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B
BRAT
Acronym
MDBA style
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OFFICIAL
#
OFFICIAL#
Basin Salinity Management Advisory Panel
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B
BSMAP
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 11:00 Item
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Basin Salinity Management Strategy 2030
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B
BSMS2030
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 11:00 Item
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Basin Senior Officials Group
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B
BSOG
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 11:18 Item
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Basin-wide Environmental Watering Strategy (MDBA
2014)
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B
BEWS
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 11:19 Item
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Bridging the Gap (to the Sustainable Diversion Limits in
the Basin Plan)
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B
BtG
Acronym
DCCEEW
23/09/2024 9:04 Item
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A New South Wales state priority project – Basin Pipes
project.
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B
Basin Pipes
Acronym
DCCEEW
23/09/2024 10:05 Item
acronyms and style guide
Behavioural Economics Team of the Australian
Government
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B
BETA
Acronym
DCCEEW
23/09/2024 10:05 Item
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Business Research and Innovation Initiative
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B
BRII Challenge
Write in lower case, unless at the start of a sentence.
Acronym
DCCEEW
23/09/2024 10:06 Item
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Certainty of access to Basin water resources means the
extent to which there are clear overarching policy settings
and rules for sharing of water resources under different
water supply conditions for water users, including
consumptive users, the environment and communities,
so they can make confident and informed decisions.
(Developed for the purpose of reporting against Matter
Definition;#Spel ing or
17).
punctuation;#Water
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C
certainty of access
management 101
Technical
25/10/2023 14:17 Item
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A limit, implemented in 1997, on the volume of surface
water that can be diverted for consumptive use as
specified in the Murray–Darling Basin Agreement,
Schedule E.
Always upper case 'C' when referring to the Cap on
diversions or Cap compliance.
Example
Spel ing or
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C
Cap, the Cap
The Murray–Darling Basin Capon diversions under
MDBA website
punctuation;#Definition MDBA style;#Technical
26/10/2023 8:21 Item
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sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
C
Canberra office
Not Head office or Central office.
Preferred term
MDBA style
26/10/2023 8:22 Item
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OFFICIAL
#
OFFICIAL#
All lower case letters when writing in general terms.
When referring to the name of a catchment management
authority, use title case.
catchment management
Example
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C
authorities
North East Catchment Management Authority.
Spel ing or punctuation Whole of Government
26/10/2023 8:24 Item
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It’s correct to write ‘consists of’ but not ‘comprised of’.
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C
comprised
Spel ing or punctuation Whole of Government
26/10/2023 8:26 Item
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Not 'coolibah'.
Spel ing or
Example
punctuation;#Flora or
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C
coolabah
Eucalyptus coolabah commonly known as coolabah.
fauna
MDBA style
26/10/2023 8:28 Item
acronyms and style guide
In First Nations context always upper case 'C'. See 'First
Nations Country'.
Example
Whole of
Today we live and work on the Countryof many different
MDBA First Nations cultural
Government;#Cultural
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C
Country
First Nations people.
protocols and style guide
Spel ing or punctuation protocols
26/10/2023 8:31 Item
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sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
C
Culture, Cultural
In First Nations context always use upper case 'C'.
Spel ing or punctuation Cultural protocols
3/11/2023 18:48 Item
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Write as title case, each word in the name starts with an
upper case letter.
Example
The Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder
(CEWH)delivers water for the environment when and
where plants and animals need it most.
Background
The name Commonwealth Environmental Water Office
(CEWO) is no longer used, since an organisational
restructure occurred in May 2023. The senior executive in
charge of that Office took on responsibility for additional
Commonwealth
teams as the head of Division for the Environmental Water
Commonwealth
Environmental Water
and Aquatic Ecosystems Division (EWAE) of DCCEEW.
Environmental Water Holder Acronym;#Water
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C
Holder
That senior executive also looks after the Office of Water
website
management 101
Whole of Government
10/11/2023 22:46 Item
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Use of water for irrigation, industry, urban, stock and
domestic use, or other private purposes.Write as lower
Definition;#Spel ing or
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C
consumptive use
case 'consumptive use'unless at the start of a sentence.
punctuation
Technical
26/11/2023 17:43 Item
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2 x Ministerial Councils, BOC, BOCA, Basin Community
Committee, River Murray Operations Committee, Water
committees, water
Quality Advisory Panel.
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
C
management committees
Bil abong secretariat page
Definition
Technical
26/11/2023 17:47 Item
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OFFICIAL
#
OFFICIAL#
The Basin Plan Review wil explore how best to plan for an
uncertain future and what actions we can take to help the
Basin adapt to a changing climate.
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C
Climate Change theme
MDBA website
Definition
Technical
26/11/2023 17:51 Item
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Water entitlements are divided into differing ‘classes’ of
security (reliability in Victoria), where ‘security’ refers to
the frequency with which water allocated under that
entitlement is able to be supplied in ful .Higher security
entitlements have higher average and less variable yields
than lower security entitlements.
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
C
class of entitlement
Definition
Technical
26/11/2023 17:52 Item
acronyms and style guide
The Commonwealth Procurement Rules set out the rules
that government officers must comply with when they
Commonwealth
procure goods and services.
Commonwealth Procurement
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C
Procurement Rules
Rules
Definition
Technical
26/11/2023 17:57 Item
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The Commonwealth Grant Rules and Guidelines
(CGRG) establish the Commonwealth grants policy
framework. They contain the key legislative and policy
Commonwealth Grant
requirements and explain the better practice principles of
Commonwealth Grants Rules
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
C
Rules and Guidelines
grants administration. The CGRG is published by the
and Guidelines
Definition;#Acronym
Technical
26/11/2023 18:01 Item
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The cumulative balance (the basis of SDL compliance)
compares actual take and permitted take over time in a
sustainable diversion limit (SDL) resource unit. The
annual water credits/debits in a resource unit are added
to those from the previous year to accrue the cumulative
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C
cumulative balance
balance.
Definition
Technical
26/11/2023 18:02 Item
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Council of Australian GovernmentsNote: the COAG was
ceased on 29 May 2020, after agreement from the
National Cabinet.
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
C
COAG
COAG archive information
Acronym
Whole of Government
20/09/2024 8:32 Item
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Chief Financial Officer
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
C
CFO
Acronym
Whole of Government
20/09/2024 8:33 Item
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Chief Operating Officer
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
C
COO
Acronym
Whole of Government
20/09/2024 8:33 Item
acronyms and style guide
consolidated revenue fund
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
C
CRF
Acronym
Whole of Government
20/09/2024 8:35 Item
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Commonwealth resource management frameworkOR
customer relationship management system
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
C
CRM
Acronym
Whole of Government
20/09/2024 8:58 Item
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OFFICIAL
#
OFFICIAL#
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research
Program, an Australian Government agency
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
C
CSIRO
CSIRO website
Acronym
Whole of Government
20/09/2024 8:59 Item
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sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
C
Cab Sub
Cabinet Submission
Acronym
Whole of Government
20/09/2024 10:19 Item
acronyms and style guide
Commonwealth Environmental Water Office
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
C
CEWO
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 11:59 Item
acronyms and style guide
Construction Hazard Assessment and Implication Review
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
C
CHAIR
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 11:59 Item
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Cultural heritage management plan
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
C
CHMP
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 11:59 Item
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Central Irrigation Trust
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
C
CIT
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 12:00 Item
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Coorong, Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth Community
Advisory Panel
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
C
CLLMM CAP
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 12:00 Item
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Cultural Landscape Plan of Management (Lake Victoria)
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C
CLPoM
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 12:01 Item
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(North Central) Catchment Management Authority
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C
CMA
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 12:01 Item
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Constraints Measures Program
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
C
CMP
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 12:02 Item
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Constraints Management Strategy
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
C
CMS
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 12:02 Item
acronyms and style guide
Constraints Management Working Group
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
C
CMWG
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 12:02 Item
acronyms and style guide
Central West Catchment Management Authority
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
C
CWCMA
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 12:03 Item
acronyms and style guide
OFFICIAL
#
OFFICIAL#
The document titled ‘Victoria’s North and Murray Water
Resource Plan Comprehensive Report’, containing
supporting information and accreditable material for the
purpose of the proposed WRP
Note: where the term ‘Comprehensive Report’ is used in
this assessment, this is taken to mean the main body of
the report (i.e. Parts 1-15), and not the Appendices unless
explicitly stated.
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C
Comprehensive Report
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 12:03 Item
acronyms and style guide
Committee on Aboriginal Water Interests
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
C
CAWI
Acronym
DCCEEW
23/09/2024 9:05 Item
acronyms and style guide
Coal Seam Gas
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
C
CSG
Acronym
DCCEEW
23/09/2024 9:05 Item
acronyms and style guide
Closing the Gap
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
C
CtG
Acronym
DCCEEW
23/09/2024 9:05 Item
acronyms and style guide
Coorong, Lower Lakes, Murray Mouth Recovery project
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
C
CLLMM
Acronym
DCCEEW
23/09/2024 10:06 Item
acronyms and style guide
Commonwealth On-Farm Further Irrigation Efficiency
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
C
COFFIE
Acronym
DCCEEW
23/09/2024 10:06 Item
acronyms and style guide
Compliance and Enforcement Systems for Water
Resource Management
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
C
C&E
Acronym
DCCEEW
23/09/2024 10:07 Item
acronyms and style guide
Include the First Nation's name in brackets, and not in
italics. Place (Baaka) before 'River', not after.
Do not write it with a dash or en dash: Darling–Baaka or
Spel ing or
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D
Darling (Baaka) River
Darling-Baaka.
punctuation;#Places
MDBA style
26/10/2023 9:13 Item
acronyms and style guide
When the day is fol owed by the date, do not separate with
a comma. See ‘year’.
Example
Australian Government Style
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D
dates
Thursday 21 June 2024.
Manual
Spel ing or punctuation Whole of Government
26/10/2023 9:15 Item
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OFFICIAL
#
OFFICIAL#
Lower case 'd' on drought. Specify which drought you are
writing about.
Mil enium drought (upper case 'M') – 1996 to
2009Federation drought (upper case 'F') – 1895 to 1902
Further information about historical droughts: Previous
Australian Government Style
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D
droughts
droughts (bom.gov.au)
Manual
Spel ing or punctuation Whole of Government
26/10/2023 9:16 Item
acronyms and style guide
Write as title case, each word in the name starts with an
Spel ing or
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
D
Darling Junction
upper case letter.
punctuation;#Places
MDBA style
3/11/2023 19:53 Item
acronyms and style guide
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
D
daytime
Write daytime as one word not day time.
Merriam-Webster dictionary
Spel ing or punctuation Whole of Government
3/11/2023 19:55 Item
acronyms and style guide
Australian Government Department of Climate Change,
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D
DCCEEW
Energy, the Environment and Water.
DCCEEW website
Definition;#Acronym
Technical
26/11/2023 18:02 Item
acronyms and style guide
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
D
decision-making
Write 'decision-making' with a hyphen.
Macquarie Dictionary
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
26/11/2023 18:11 Item
acronyms and style guide
A structured process and set of principles and
decision-making
considerations to guide the Authority to make decisions
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D
framework
on proposals and options.
Definition
Technical
26/11/2023 18:12 Item
acronyms and style guide
Specific, measurable and wel -defined tangible or
intangible outputs, products or services to be produced by
Project Management
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D
deliverable
the project to help realise the project’s objectives.
Framework
Definition
Technical
26/11/2023 18:13 Item
acronyms and style guide
Signifying a reliance on the partial or complete delivery of
another project, or on a non-project related product, task,
Project Management
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D
dependencies
or event.
Framework
Definition
Technical
26/11/2023 18:13 Item
acronyms and style guide
A requirement of the Basin Plan Review set out in the
Water Act. The discussion paper must be prepared in
consultation with the Basin states and the Basin
Community Committee and released in 2026. The
Discussion Paper wil set out the issues to be addressed
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D
discussion paper
in the review of the Basin Plan and be published on the
Definition
Technical;#The Water Act
26/11/2023 18:13 Item
acronyms and style guide
The removal of water from a river system by means of
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D
diversion
pumping or gravity channels.
Definition
Technical
26/11/2023 18:17 Item
acronyms and style guide
The Data and Analytics Management Framework (DAMF)
provides a suite of tools, templates and guidelines to
Data and Analytics
inform and support MDBA staff with data management
Data and Analytics
Management Framework during projects.
Management Framework
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D
(DAMF)
(DAMF)
Acronym
Technical
7/05/2024 10:44 Item
acronyms and style guide
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
D
degrees Celsius
See Temperature
Spel ing or punctuation Whole of Government
27/08/2024 17:37 Item
acronyms and style guide
Victorian Department of Energy, Environment and Climate
Action
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
D
DEECA
DEECA website
Acronym
Whole of Government
20/09/2024 9:01 Item
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South Australian Department for Environment and Water
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
D
DEW
DEW website
Acronym
Whole of Government
20/09/2024 9:03 Item
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OFFICIAL
#
OFFICIAL#
Division Head / Head of Division (previously First Assistant
Secretary (FAS))
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D
DH/HOD
Acronym
Whole of Government
20/09/2024 9:03 Item
acronyms and style guide
New South Wales Department of Planning, Housing and
Infrastructure
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D
DPHI
DPHI website
Acronym
Whole of Government
20/09/2024 9:24 Item
acronyms and style guide
deed of variation
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D
DoV
Acronym
Whole of Government
20/09/2024 9:25 Item
acronyms and style guide
data sharing agreement
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D
DSA
Acronym
Whole of Government
20/09/2024 9:27 Item
acronyms and style guide
Diurnal Tide Ratios
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
D
DTR
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 12:05 Item
acronyms and style guide
Spel out in ful ‘for example’. Avoid using Latin shortened
forms
unless there is limited space, such as tables or in
technical and specialist publications.
Example
They found some aspects of grammar confusing, for
example the different types of pronouns.
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E
e.g.
Inactive
Whole of Government
26/10/2023 9:29 Item
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environmental
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E
management plans
All lower case.
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
26/10/2023 10:21 Item
acronyms and style guide
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
E
environmental water
Do not use.Instead, use 'water for the environment'.
Inactive
MDBA style
26/10/2023 10:23 Item
acronyms and style guide
environmental water
All lower case in generic context, but Commonwealth
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
E
holder
Environmental Water Holder.
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
26/10/2023 11:32 Item
acronyms and style guide
Write as title case, each word in the name starts with an
upper case letter.
The long-term Environmental Watering Plans provide
detail on environmental objectives and targets at a
regional scale, as wel as watering requirements for a
range of environmental assets and functions. Water
resource plans provide for environmental watering to
occur consistently with the MDBA Environmental Watering
Strategy and the Environmental Watering Plan.
Environmental Watering
Spel ing or
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
E
Plan
See the preferred term 'water for the environment'.
punctuation;#Definition The Basin Plan;#Technical
2/11/2023 11:42 Item
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OFFICIAL
#
OFFICIAL#
Use for more than 3 authors in in-text references; in main
text use 'and others'
Example
(Last name of author et al., 2018).
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et al.
Spel ing or punctuation Whole of Government
2/11/2023 11:47 Item
acronyms and style guide
Lower case unless the specific name of a framework.
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E
evaluation framework
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
2/11/2023 12:00 Item
acronyms and style guide
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
E
Executive
Write 'the Executive' instead of 'the Executive Team'.
Preferred term
MDBA style
2/11/2023 12:08 Item
acronyms and style guide
El Niño is written with a space and a tilde above the
second ‘n’ in Niño.
Create the
tilde by holding down the Alt key and typing 1 6
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E
El Niño
4 on the numeric keyboard (with Num Lock turned on).
Spel ing or punctuation Whole of Government
3/11/2023 20:01 Item
acronyms and style guide
Upper case ‘E’ when used as a proper noun: the Earth’s
surface. Use lower case 'e' when writing about soil or the
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
E
Earth
ground.
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
3/11/2023 20:06 Item
acronyms and style guide
Use en dashes between 2 nouns that both retain their
original meaning. These are called ‘coordinate nouns’. An
en dash is twice the width of a hyphen.
Examples
Murray–Darling Basin, Barmah–Mil ewa Forest
Create an en dash by holding down the Alt key and typing
0 1 5 0 on the numeric keyboard (with Num Lock turned
on).
Australian Government Style
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en dash
Manual
Spel ing or punctuation Whole of Government
10/11/2023 22:59 Item
acronyms and style guide
The environmental watering requirements of a priority
environmental asset or priority ecosystem function, as
environmental watering
the case may be, identified using the methods set out in
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E
requirements
Part 5 of Chapter 8.See 'environmental assets'.
Definition
Technical;#The Basin Plan
24/11/2023 18:57 Item
acronyms and style guide
The MDBA wil share early thinking on the Basin Plan
Review to build understanding of the issues so everyone
can participate ful y in the consultation. Scheduled for
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E
Early Insights Paper
release in mid-2024. This is not a statutory requirement.
Definition
Technical
26/11/2023 18:18 Item
acronyms and style guide
Efficiency projects (up water) allow consumptive water to
efficiency projects (up
be used more efficiently, with water savings transferred to
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E
water)
the environmental holdings.
Definition
Technical
26/11/2023 18:19 Item
acronyms and style guide
OFFICIAL
#
OFFICIAL#
Environmental assets include:
(a) water dependent ecosystems
(b) ecosystem services
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environmental assets
(c) sites with ecological significance
Definition
Technical;#The Water Act
26/11/2023 18:21 Item
acronyms and style guide
The environmentally sustainable level of take (ESLT) is the
amount of water that can be taken for consumptive uses
while ensuring there is enough water to sustain the
environment and achieve statutory outcomes.
environmentally
The Water Act requires the sustainable diversion limits
sustainable level of take (SDL) in the Basin Plan reflect an ESLT. This term is
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(ESLT)
defined in section 4 of the Water Act.
Definition;#Acronym
Technical;#The Water Act
26/11/2023 18:25 Item
acronyms and style guide
The Basin Plan determines that:
1. The Authority
must establish and maintain a database
identifying information about environmental assets and
ecosystem functions that require environmental watering
(the environmental assets and ecosystem functions
database). Note: This database is expected to include
information used in the development of the Basin Plan
environmental assets and which wil be added to on an ongoing basis.
ecosystem functions
2. The Authority
may publish the database on its website.
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database
Definition
Technical;#The Basin Plan
26/11/2023 18:26 Item
acronyms and style guide
The MDBA’s Executive Board (EB) is the peak internal
governance, decision-making body, and leadership forum
for our organisation.
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E
Executive Board (EB)
Acronym;#Definition
MDBA style
15/01/2024 16:42 Item
acronyms and style guide
Executive Director
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
E
ED
Acronym
Whole of Government
20/09/2024 9:28 Item
acronyms and style guide
Enhanced Environmental Water Delivery
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E
EEWD
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 12:11 Item
acronyms and style guide
Environmental Management
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E
EM
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 12:12 Item
acronyms and style guide
Environmental Pathways Project
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
E
EPP
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 12:29 Item
acronyms and style guide
Environmental Pathways Project
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
E
EPP
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 12:30 Item
acronyms and style guide
Expenditure review committee (Federal)
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E
ERC
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 12:31 Item
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OFFICIAL
#
OFFICIAL#
Environmental Recovery Project/Program
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
E
ERP
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 12:31 Item
acronyms and style guide
Environmental Water Protection Strategy and
Implementation Plan
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E
ESIP
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 12:32 Item
acronyms and style guide
Environmental Watering Committee
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
E
EWC
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 12:33 Item
acronyms and style guide
Environmental Watering Plan
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
E
EWP
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 12:34 Item
acronyms and style guide
Environmental Works and Measures Program
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
E
EWMP
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 12:34 Item
acronyms and style guide
Environmental Watering Requirements
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
E
EWRs
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 12:34 Item
acronyms and style guide
Environmental Water Trials
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
E
EWT
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 12:35 Item
acronyms and style guide
Environmental Water Trade-Off Framework
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
E
EWTOF
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 12:35 Item
acronyms and style guide
Efficiency Measures (under the WESA)
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
E
EM
Acronym
DCCEEW
23/09/2024 9:06 Item
acronyms and style guide
Refers to the relevant version of the Environment
Protection Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth)
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E
EPBC
Acronym
DCCEEW
23/09/2024 9:07 Item
acronyms and style guide
Environmental Works and Measures Feasibility project
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
E
EWMF
Acronym
DCCEEW
23/09/2024 10:07 Item
acronyms and style guide
Environmental Water Knowledge and Research project
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
E
EWMF
Acronym
DCCEEW
23/09/2024 10:08 Item
acronyms and style guide
Preferred term instead of Indigenous. Write as title case,
each word in the name starts with an upper case letter.For
more information on usage, refer to the MDBA Cultural
Whole of
protocols and style guide.
MDBA First Nations cultural
Government;#Cultural
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
F
First Nations
protocols and style guide
Definition
protocols
25/10/2023 14:19 Item
acronyms and style guide
Lower case, one word. Exception: in proper names such
as the icon site ‘Chowil a Floodplain and
Lindsay–Wal pol a Islands’.
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
F
floodplain
Spel ing or punctuation Whole of Government
25/10/2023 14:19 Item
acronyms and style guide
OFFICIAL
#
OFFICIAL#
Number by chapter in reports or documents.
Example
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F
figure numbering
1.1, 1.2 …; 2.1, 2.2 etc.
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
7/11/2023 13:30 Item
acronyms and style guide
In documents, Figure plural is capitalised.
Example
seeFigures 4.10 and 4.11.
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F
figure
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
7/11/2023 13:34 Item
acronyms and style guide
Write the figure title and caption underneath the figure.No
punctuation after the number.
Example
Figure 1.1 Murrumbidgee region.
Full stop after figure title only if there is further information
in a caption.
Example
Figure 1.1 Murrumbidgee region. The westernmost
boundary is defined by xxxx.
For sources and other figure notes, include after the
caption (use the style created for these in Word).
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F
figure title and caption
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
7/11/2023 13:38 Item
acronyms and style guide
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
F
firsthand
One word, not 'first hand'.
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
7/11/2023 13:41 Item
acronyms and style guide
The generally preferred term, rather than Aboriginal
people or Indigenous people.
MDBA First Nations cultural
Definition;#Preferred
Cultural protocols;#Whole of
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
F
First Nations people
protocols and style guide
term
Government
7/11/2023 13:44 Item
acronyms and style guide
Generally all lower case except Murray cod,
Murray–Darling rainbowfish, Murray hardyhead, Australian
smelt.
All lower case unless starting a sentence with the name of
the fish species.
Spel ing or
punctuation;#Flora or
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F
fish species
Example
Finterest website
fauna
MDBA style
7/11/2023 13:52 Item
acronyms and style guide
Fivebough and Tuckerbil
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
F
Swamps
Not Fivebough–Tuckerbil Swamps. Lower case 'and'.
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
7/11/2023 13:55 Item
acronyms and style guide
Cultural protocols;#Whole of
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
F
First Nations Country
Always upper case 'C' on Country.
Spel ing or punctuation Government
10/11/2023 22:36 Item
acronyms and style guide
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
F
First Nations Cultures
Always upper case 'C' on Culture, Cultures or Cultural.
Spel ing or punctuation Cultural protocols
10/11/2023 22:37 Item
acronyms and style guide
OFFICIAL
#
OFFICIAL#
Write as lower case.
Example
Sea to Hume fishway.
Spel ing or
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F
fishways
punctuation;#Places
MDBA style
21/11/2023 13:19 Item
acronyms and style guide
The 2026 Basin Plan Review wil investigate opportunities
to recognise and, where possible, contribute to the
achievement of First Nations aspirations for water
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F
First Nations theme
management in the Basin.
Definition
Technical
24/11/2023 18:57 Item
acronyms and style guide
The taking of water from a floodplain, including after it
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F
floodplain harvesting
leaves a watercourse during a flood.
Definition
Technical;#The Basin Plan
24/11/2023 18:57 Item
acronyms and style guide
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
F
fact sheet
Write 'fact sheet' as 2 words, not 'factsheet'.
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
3/01/2024 11:10 Item
acronyms and style guide
First Assistant Secretary (now HOD)
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F
FAS
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 9:29 Item
acronyms and style guide
Forestry Corporation NSW
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
F
FCNSW
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 12:40 Item
acronyms and style guide
Financial Management Information System
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
F
FMIS
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 12:41 Item
acronyms and style guide
Floodplain Operations Tool Solutions
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
F
FpOTS (FpOT)
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 14:10 Item
acronyms and style guide
Flood plain harvesting
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
F
FPH
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 14:10 Item
acronyms and style guide
Federation Funding Agreement
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
F
FFA
Acronym
DCCEEW
23/09/2024 9:07 Item
acronyms and style guide
Functional and Efficiency Review
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
F
FER
Acronym
DCCEEW
23/09/2024 9:07 Item
acronyms and style guide
Gigalitres. 1 GL = 1 mil ion litres = 1,000 megalitres
(ML). Use the abbreviation after the first iteration of writing
gigalitres in ful .
Examples
The water release totalled 25 gigalitres per year (GL/year),
an increase of 5 GL/year.
Water releases decreased from a target of 3 gigalitres per
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G
gigalitres, GL
day (GL/day) to a target of 2.7 GL/day.
Spel ing or punctuation Whole of Government
25/10/2023 14:20 Item
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OFFICIAL
#
OFFICIAL#
Lower case.
Example
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G
gauge
Gundagai gauge.
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
8/11/2023 6:57 Item
acronyms and style guide
Spel ing or
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
G
golden perch
Lower case except if starting a sentence.See 'fish
punctuation;#Flora or MDBA style
8/11/2023 6:58 Item
acronyms and style guide
In content, particularly website content to be culturally
sensitive, use 'Goulburn–Murray region' or just
Goulburn–Murray Irrigation 'Goulburn–Murray' instead of 'Goulburn–Murray Irrigation
Acronym;#Preferred
MDBA style;#Cultural
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G
District (GMID)
District'.
term
protocols
8/11/2023 8:15 Item
acronyms and style guide
Write as title case, each word in the name starts with an
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G
Great Artesian Basin
upper case letter.
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
8/11/2023 8:15 Item
acronyms and style guide
Write 'groundwater' as one word. Groundwater means
wateroccurring:
(a) naturally below ground level (whether in an aquifer or
otherwise) or
(b) at a place below ground that has been pumped,
diverted or released to that place for the purpose of being
stored there.
Groundwater does not include water held in underground
tanks, pipes or other works.
Example
Definition;#Spel ing or
Groundwater Management Unit (capitalise only if it is part
punctuation;#Water
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G
groundwater
of the official name of a particular unit).
MDBA website
management 101
The Water Act;#Technical
8/11/2023 8:19 Item
acronyms and style guide
Write as title case, each word in the name starts with an
upper case letter. Use
en dash between 'Gunbower' and
Gunbower–Koondrook–Per 'Koondrook' and 'Perricoota' not a hyphen.
Spel ing or
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G
ricoota Forest
punctuation;#Places
MDBA style
8/11/2023 8:21 Item
acronyms and style guide
gross value of irrigated
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G
agricultural production
Spel out in ful . Do not use acronym 'GVIAP'.
Acronym;#Definition
MDBA style
8/11/2023 8:32 Item
acronyms and style guide
Do not spel it out. This is the official name of the water
Acronym;#Definition;#S
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G
GWMWater
authority for the Grampians Wimmera Mallee region.
GWMWater
pel ing or punctuation MDBA style
8/11/2023 8:34 Item
acronyms and style guide
Write as title case, each word in the name starts with an
upper case letter.
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
G
Gwydir Wetlands
Spel ing or punctuation Whole of Government
8/11/2023 8:41 Item
acronyms and style guide
Use
en dash between 'Goulburn' and 'Murray' not a
hyphen.
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
G
Goulburn–Murray Water
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
8/11/2023 13:03 Item
acronyms and style guide
OFFICIAL
#
OFFICIAL#
Non-profit funding opportunities that provide financial
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G
grant
assistance towards achieving specific project objectives.
Definition
Technical
24/11/2023 19:01 Item
acronyms and style guide
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
G
Goulburn–Broken
Use
en dash between Goulburn and Broken not a hypen.
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
30/11/2023 10:41 Item
acronyms and style guide
General Manager
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G
GM
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 9:29 Item
acronyms and style guide
Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority
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G
GBCMA
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 14:11 Item
acronyms and style guide
Gunbower Flow Constraints Community Group
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G
GFCCG
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 14:12 Item
acronyms and style guide
Groundwater Model ing System
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
G
GMS
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 14:13 Item
acronyms and style guide
Great Artesian Basin
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
G
GAB
Acronym
DCCEEW
23/09/2024 9:08 Item
acronyms and style guide
geographical information system or geographic
information system
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
G
GIS
Acronym
DCCEEW
23/09/2024 9:08 Item
acronyms and style guide
Great Artesian Infrastructure Investment Program
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
G
GAB IIP
Acronym
DCCEEW
23/09/2024 10:08 Item
acronyms and style guide
Great Artesian Basin Sustainability Initiative
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G
GABSI
Acronym
DCCEEW
23/09/2024 10:08 Item
acronyms and style guide
Goulburn–Murray Water Connections
project. Goulburn–Murray is written with an en dash, not a
hyphen.
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G
GMW
Acronym
DCCEEW
23/09/2024 10:09 Item
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high conservation value
Spel ing or
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H
aquatic ecosystems
Do not use acronym.
punctuation;#Acronym MDBA style
8/11/2023 8:45 Item
acronyms and style guide
Hume to Yarrawonga
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H
reach
Lower case 'to and 'reach'.
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
8/11/2023 8:50 Item
acronyms and style guide
northern/southern
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H
hemisphere
All lower case.
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
8/11/2023 13:26 Item
acronyms and style guide
OFFICIAL
#
OFFICIAL#
Held environmental water is water available under:
(a) a water access right, or
(b) a water delivery right, or
(c) an irrigation right,
for the purposes of achieving environmental outcomes
held environmental water (including water that is specified in a water access right to
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H
(HEW)
be for environmental use).
Definition
Technical;#The Water Act
26/11/2023 18:32 Item
acronyms and style guide
Irrigation Hotspots Assessment Program
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
H
Hotspots
Acronym
DCCEEW
23/09/2024 10:09 Item
acronyms and style guide
Healthy Headwaters Water Use Efficiency Program
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
H
HHWUE
Acronym
DCCEEW
23/09/2024 10:10 Item
acronyms and style guide
Use '
that is' instead.
Example
The department has a major problem with its website
Australian Government Style Spel ing or
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I
i.e.
–that is, users find pages are very slow to load.
Manual
punctuation;#Inactive Whole of Government
8/11/2023 9:00 Item
acronyms and style guide
Do not capitalise the term 'icon site/s', use all lower case
letters.
Use the following formats for icon site names.
Barmah–Mil ewa ForestGunbower–Koondrook–Perricoota
ForestHattah LakesChowil a Floodplain and
Lindsay–Wal pol a IslandsLower Lakes, Coorong and
Murray MouthRiver Murray Channel
Note the use of
en dashes, not hyphens in icon site
names.
Spel ing or
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I
icon site/s
punctuation;#Places
MDBA style
8/11/2023 9:07 Item
acronyms and style guide
Always upper case 'I' when referring to Australia's
Indigenous people(s).
However the term 'First Nations people' is generally
preferred, rather than Aboriginal people or Indigenous
Spel ing or
people.
MDBA First Nations cultural
punctuation;#Preferred MDBA style;#Cultural
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I
Indigenous
protocols and style guide
term
protocols
8/11/2023 9:10 Item
acronyms and style guide
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
I
Indigenous river rangers
Lower case 'river rangers' unless writing the ful program
Spel ing or punctuation Whole of Government
8/11/2023 9:16 Item
acronyms and style guide
OFFICIAL
#
OFFICIAL#
Title case when writing the program name.
The Murray–Darling Basin Indigenous River Rangers
Program was established in 2021 to empower Indigenous
organisations to improve waterway health, manage
Country and sustain the Basin's valuable environmental
Indigenous River Rangers assets.
National Indigenous
Spel ing or
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I
Program
Australians Agency website
punctuation;#Definition Whole of Government
8/11/2023 9:17 Item
acronyms and style guide
Image captions have a ful stop at the end of the sentence
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I
Image captions
in both web and print content.
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
8/11/2023 13:53 Item
acronyms and style guide
Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) refers
to the rights that First Nations people have, and want to
Indigenous Cultural and
have, to protect their traditional arts and culture.
The Arts Law Centre of
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I
Intellectual Property (ICIP)
Australia
Acronym
Whole of Government
10/11/2023 22:22 Item
acronyms and style guide
Internal MDBA non-decision-making group to provide
strategic and technical advice, assistance and
assessment on the Basin Outlook, Sustainable Yields,
Sustainable Rivers Audit, Evaluation and Basin Plan
Review projects to make recommendations to the Basin
Plan Review Executive Board.
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I
Integration Group
Definition
Technical
26/11/2023 18:34 Item
acronyms and style guide
The interception of surface water or groundwater that
would otherwise flow, directly or indirectly, into a
watercourse, lake, wetland, aquifer, dam, or reservoir that
Definition;#Water
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I
interception
is a Basin water resource.
management 101
Technical;#The Water Act
26/11/2023 18:36 Item
acronyms and style guide
An agreement whose parties are:
(a) Australia and a foreign country, or
(b) Australia and 2 or more foreign countries.
See 'relevant international agreements' and 'Ramsar
Convention'.
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I
international agreement
Definition
Technical;#The Water Act
26/11/2023 18:38 Item
acronyms and style guide
Write intergovernmental as one word with no hyphen, not
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I
intergovernmental
inter-governmental.
Spel ing or punctuation Whole of Government
30/11/2023 22:40 Item
acronyms and style guide
inter-valley is hyphenated.Unless at the start of a
sentence, write 'inter-valley trade' all lower case.
Spel out in ful and include the acronym in brackets the
Spel ing or
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I
inter-valley trade
first time used in a web page or document: 'inter-valley
punctuation;#Acronym MDBA style
6/12/2023 11:23 Item
acronyms and style guide
An advisory committee established by, and reporting to,
Independent River
the Murray–Darling Basin Authority.
Operations Review Group
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I
(IRORG)
Acronym
MDBA style
19/02/2024 10:43 Item
acronyms and style guide
OFFICIAL
#
OFFICIAL#
The Integrated River Model ing Uplift (IRMU) is a program
of work that wil enhance the 24 Basin river models and
integrate these in a contemporary cloud-based
framework.
Integrated River Model ing
Read more about IRMU on the
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I
Uplift (IRMU)
MDBA website
Acronym;#Definition
MDBA style
19/03/2024 13:41 Item
acronyms and style guide
The Inspector-General of Water Compliance is a statutory
office holder with oversight, monitoring, regulatory
functions and powers, established under the
Water Act
Inspector-General of
(2007).
Inspector-General of Water
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I
Water Compliance (IGWC)
Compliance (IGWC)
Acronym
Technical
7/05/2024 14:38 Item
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Intergovernmental Agreement
Intergovernmental Agreement on Implementing Water
Reform in the Murray-Darling Basin to address the
implementation of toolkit measures
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I
IGA
Acronym
Whole of Government
20/09/2024 9:30 Item
acronyms and style guide
Infrastructure Assets Register
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I
IAR
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 14:14 Item
acronyms and style guide
Individual Daily Extraction Limits
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I
IDEL
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 14:15 Item
acronyms and style guide
Independent Hydroclimate Expert Panel
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
I
IHSEP
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 14:16 Item
acronyms and style guide
Integrated leadership systems
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I
ILS
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 14:16 Item
acronyms and style guide
Integrated operations
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I
IO
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 14:17 Item
acronyms and style guide
Integrated operations strategy
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I
IOS
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 14:17 Item
acronyms and style guide
Integrated River Model ing Uplift
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I
IRMU
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 14:18 Item
acronyms and style guide
The table titled ‘Victoria’s North and Murray Water
Resource Plan Accredited Text Table’, containing the
Index Table / Accredited
accreditable text for the purpose of the proposed WRP.
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I
Text Table
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 14:19 Item
acronyms and style guide
Inspection test plans
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I
ITP's
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 14:19 Item
acronyms and style guide
OFFICIAL
#
OFFICIAL#
IT Security Advisor
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I
ITSA
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 14:20 Item
acronyms and style guide
Inter Valley Transfer
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
I
IVT
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 14:20 Item
acronyms and style guide
Instream Woody Habitat
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I
IWH
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 14:21 Item
acronyms and style guide
Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
I
ILSC
Acronym
DCCEEW
23/09/2024 9:09 Item
acronyms and style guide
Irrigated Farm Modernisation projects
sites/52b163be9/Lists/A to Z
I
IFM
Acronym
DCCEEW
23/09/2024 10:10 Item
acronyms and style guide
Write as lower case 'jurisdictions', unless writing at the
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J
jurisdictions
start of a sentence.
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
21/11/2023 14:02 Item
acronyms and style guide
Joint Programs Budget Committee
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J
JPBC
Acronym
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Joint Programs Implementation Review Taskforce
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JPIRT
Acronym
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Joint Venture Monitoring and Evaluation Program
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JVM&E
Acronym
MDBA style
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K
Koondrook–Perricoota
Use en dash between Koondrook and Perricoota not a
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
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Knowledge acquisition framework
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KAF
Acronym
MDBA style
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Knowledge col aboration strategy
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KCS
Acronym
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Knowledge framework
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KF
Acronym
MDBA style
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Knowledge gap investigations
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KGIs
Acronym
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Write as title case, each word in the name starts with an
Lachlan Regulated River upper case letter.
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L
Water Source
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
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OFFICIAL
#
OFFICIAL#
Write as title case, each word in the name starts with an
upper case letter.
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L
Lake Albacutya
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
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Write as title case, each word in the name starts with an
upper case letter.
Spel ing or
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L
Lake Wetherel
punctuation;#Places
MDBA style
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Spel ing or
Lower case unless used at the start of a sentence.See
punctuation;#Flora or
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L
lamprey
'fish species.
fauna
MDBA style
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Spel out names of Acts etc in ful with year, in italics (plus
jurisdiction, in roman using abbreviation) the first time
they are mentioned in a chapter subsection.
Example
The
Water Act 2007 (Cth).
after that use the short title without date or italics.
Example
The Water Act.
Refer to the Water Act first, and section etc after that.
Example
According to the Water Act (s. 2(i) item 6).
When referencing sections of Acts, use abbreviation for
section(s).
Example
‘s. 22(1)’.
For in-text references to Acts use the form ‘(Water Act s.
22(1)), (Water Act s. 2(i) item 6) etc.
Australian Government Style
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legislation
Do not italicise names of regulations, ordinances, orders
Manual
Spel ing or punctuation Whole of Government
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Write as title case, each word in the name starts with an
upper case letter.
Spel ing or
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L
Lake Mokoan
punctuation;#Places
MDBA style
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OFFICIAL
#
OFFICIAL#
Write as title case, each word in the name starts with an
uppercase letter. Include the First Nations name in
brackets, and not in italics.
Temporary update October 2024 – do not use '(Tar-Ru)'
when referring to Lake Victoria
There is no need to change any references to Tar-Ru for
material that currently exists. The Lake is known as Tar-Ru
and that is widely accepted.
However, in engaging with and consulting with the
traditional owners at Lake Victoria, they prefer us to use
Lake Victoria (without Tar-Ru) to avoid confusion with the
Whole of
neighbouring lands which are referred to as Tar-Ru lands
Lake Victoria (Tar-Ru), MDBA Spel ing or
Government;#Cultural
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Lake Victoria (Tar-Ru)
(Tar-Ru for short). There is an ongoing native title claim for
website
punctuation;#Places
protocols
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Write as title case, each word in the name starts with an
upper case letter. Create the
tilde above the second 'n' in
'Niña' by holding down the Alt key and pressing 1 6 4 on
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L
La Niña
the numeric keyboard (with Num Lock turned on).
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
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Write as title case, each word in the name starts with an
upper case letter. Use
en dash between 'Lindsay' and
'Wal pol a' not a hyphen.
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L
Lindsay–Wal pol a Islands
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
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L
The Living Murray program Lower case 'p' on program.
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
8/11/2023 14:10 Item
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Write as title case, each word in the name starts with an
upper case letter.
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L
Local Government Areas
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
8/11/2023 14:14 Item
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Write as title case, each word in the name starts with an
upper case letter.
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L
Lower Lakes
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
8/11/2023 14:15 Item
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Upper case 'L' and upper case 'M'.
(Note: corrected in August 2024, from 'lower Murray', for
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Lower Murray
consistency with other locations)
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
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long-term annual
Given meaning by item 7 of the table in subsection 22(1)
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diversion limit
of the
Water Act 2007 (Cth).
Definition
Technical;#The Water Act
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long-term average
Given meaning by item 6 of the table in subsection 22(1)
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sustainable diversion limit of the
Water Act 2007 (Cth).
Definition
Technical
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OFFICIAL
#
OFFICIAL#
Upper case 'L' and upper case 'D'.
Spel ing or
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L
Lower Darling (Baaka)
The First Nations name for the Darling (Baaka) River is
punctuation;#Places
MDBA style
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Loss Capitalisation Mechanism
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LCM
Acronym
MDBA style
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Local Aboriginal Land Council
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LALC
Acronym
MDBA style
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Lower Lakes, Coorong and Murray Mouth
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L
LLCMM
Acronym
MDBA style
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Lower Landscape Regulators
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L
LLR
Acronym
MDBA style
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Local Land Service
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LLS
Acronym
MDBA style
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Living Murray - TLM The Living Murray
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L
LM
Acronym
MDBA style
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Living Murray Initiative
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LMI
Acronym
MDBA style
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Long-term average annual
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LTAA
Acronym
MDBA style
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Long Term Cap Equivalent
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LTCE
Acronym
MDBA style
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Long-term diversion limit equivalent
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LTDLE
Acronym
MDBA style
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Long-term Watering Plan
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LTWP
Acronym
MDBA style
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Lake Victoria Advisory Committee
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L
LVAC
Acronym
MDBA style
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Lake Victoria Operating Strategy
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LVOS
Acronym
MDBA style
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Lake Victoria Working Group
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L
LVWG
Acronym
MDBA style
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Long Term Average Annual Yield
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LTAAY
Acronym
DCCEEW
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OFFICIAL
#
OFFICIAL#
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Mallee Zone, Mallee region
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
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Add 'the', when referring to the senior executive team.
Example
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MDBA Executive
the MDBA executive team.
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
8/11/2023 14:22 Item
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Mid-Murray
Use hyphen between 'Mid' and 'Murray'.
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
8/11/2023 14:41 Item
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For generic use, all lower case unless writing the ful
ministerial title.
Example
the ministers...
Note: use ‘the Australian Government Minister
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minister(s)
responsible for Water’ (not ‘the Water Minister’).
Spel ing or punctuation Whole of Government
10/11/2023 8:50 Item
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Spel ing or
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Morgan, South Australia
Include the state in first appearance, then 'Morgan'
punctuation;#Places
MDBA style
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Write as 'Ministerial Council' but all lower case if it is just
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Ministerial Council
'the council'.
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
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Spel ing or
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Mount Lofty Ranges
Use upper case 'R' on Ranges.
punctuation;#Places
MDBA style
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Spel ing or
Always upper case 'M' and lower case 'c'.
punctuation;#Flora or
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Murray cod
See 'fish species'.
fauna
MDBA style
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M
Murray Darling Association No hyphen or en dash.
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
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Use
en dash between 'Murray' and 'Darling' not a hyphen.
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Murray–Darling
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
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Use
en dash between 'Murray' and 'Darling' not a hyphen.
Always upper case 'b' on Basin.
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Murray–Darling Basin
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
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Do not Italicise. Use upper case 'A' for further mentions of
Murray–Darling Basin
'Agreement'.
Agreement (the
Use
en dash between 'Murray' and 'Darling' not a hyphen.
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Agreement)
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
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Spel out the first time in a major section/chapter.
Subsequently use ‘the MDBA’ to refer to the organisation.
Murray–Darling Basin
Use
en dash between 'Murray' and 'Darling' not a hyphen.
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Authority
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
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Murray–Darling Basin
Use
en dash between 'Murray' and 'Darling' not a hyphen.
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Ministerial Council
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
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OFFICIAL
#
OFFICIAL#
Use
en dash between 'Murray' and 'Darling' not a hyphen.
Spel ing or
Murray–Darling
Write 'rainbowfish' as one word, not 'rainbow fish'.
punctuation;#Flora or
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rainbowfish
See 'fish species'.
fauna
MDBA style
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Use
hyphen in the abbreviation MD-WERP, not en dash.
Murray–Darling Water and
Environment Research
If writing in ful , use
en dash between 'Murray' and
Spel ing or
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Program (MD-WERP)
'Darling' not hyphen: Murray–Darling.
punctuation;#Acronym MDBA style
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Murray Geological Basin
Spel ing or
MDBA style
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The Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations
(MLDRIN) is a confederation of Indigenous Nations or
Traditional Owners in the southern part of the
Murray Lower Darling
Murray–Darling Basin. The group was formed in 1998 and
Rivers Indigenous Nations currently includes representatives from over 20 Nations.
Acronym;#Water
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(MLDRIN)
MLDRIN website
management 101
MDBA style
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Spel ing or
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Murray Mouth; the mouth Lower case 'the mouth' or title case 'Murray Mouth'.
punctuation;#Places
MDBA style
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Write as title case, each word in the name starts with an
Murray River – see River
upper case letter.
Spel ing or
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Murray
punctuation;#Places
MDBA style
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Upper case 'M' and lower case 'r'.
Spel ing or
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Murrumbidgee region
punctuation;#Places
MDBA style
10/11/2023 14:56 Item
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Write as title case, each word in the name starts with an
upper case letter.
Spel ing or
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Murrumbidgee River
punctuation;#Places
MDBA style
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Includes the execution of all work of any description which
is necessary to keep an existing work in the state of utility
in which it was upon its original completion or upon the
completion of any improvement or replacement of the
work. However, it does not include:(a) the execution of
any improvement to the design or function of that work, or
(b) the replacement of the whole of that work, or
(c) work to remedy the extraordinary failure of all or part of
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maintenance
that work.
Definition
Technical;#The Water Act
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Reports required under Schedule 12 of the Basin Plan. For
each matter listed in Schedule 12, each reporter listed for
the matter must, for each reporting period and by the
reporting day, produce a report (S13.14 of Basin
Plan).Annual reports are due 31 October each year.
Five-yearly reports are due 31 October 2024 and wil be a
Matter Reports (Schedule key line of evidence for the 2025 Basin Plan Evaluation.
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12 Reports)
Definition
Technical;#The Basin Plan
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OFFICIAL
#
OFFICIAL#
Types of water model ing;
hydrological modelhydrodynamic model ingscenario
model ingSource, the River Murray and lower Darling
(Baaka) River systems modelIntegrated River Model ing
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models
Uplift (IRMU)National Hydrologic Model ing Strategy
MDBA website
Definition;#Acronym
Technical;#MDBA style
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Water resource model ing helps the MDBA, governments,
and water authorities manage water by showing how
different decisions, policies, or environmental factors
could affect our rivers.
By testing different scenarios, computer model ing gives
scientists objective information. Model ing can predict
effects on:
water flowswater qualityecosystems.
Model ing takes into account:
the amount of water flowing in the river (hydrological
model ing)the shape of the river bed and floodplain
model ing for water
(hydrodynamic model ing)water used for irrigation or town
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management
supplyother factors such as the impact of climate change.
MDBA website
Definition
Technical;#MDBA style
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Monitoring is the means by which we obtain the data and
information. It is distinct from, but provides input to,
assessments of effectiveness and impact of policy
initiatives (such as the assessment undertaken through
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monitoring
the 2025 Basin Plan Evaluation) to manage the Basin
Definition
Technical
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Specific and significant junctures in a project’s timeline
such as a change, phase, activity, or checkpoint requiring
MDBA Project Management
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milestone
time, resources and effort to accomplish.
Framework
Definition
Technical
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Murray-Sunset National
Spel ing or
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Park
Use hyphen between Murray and Sunset.
punctuation;#Places
MDBA style
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Megalitres. 1 million litres = 1,000 megalitres (ML) = 1
gigalitre (GL). Use the abbreviation after first iteration of
megalitres in ful .
ExamplesWater releases decreased from 3,000
megalitres per day (ML/day) to a target of 2,500 ML/day.
Water releases increased from 2,000 megalitres per
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megalitres, ML
year (ML/year) to a target of 2,500 ML/year.
Spel ing or punctuation Whole of Government
30/11/2023 20:59 Item
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OFFICIAL
#
OFFICIAL#
memorandum of understanding
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MoU
Acronym
Whole of Government
20/09/2024 9:31 Item
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Min Brief/MB
Ministerial Brief
Acronym
Whole of Government
20/09/2024 10:20 Item
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Min Corro/MC
ministerial correspondence
Acronym
Whole of Government
20/09/2024 10:20 Item
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Min Sub/MS
ministerial submission
Acronym
Whole of Government
20/09/2024 10:21 Item
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MDBA Audit and Risk Committee
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MDBA ARC
Acronym
MDBA style
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Murray Darling Freshwater Research Centre
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MDFRC
Acronym
MDBA style
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South Australia Murray–Darling Basin Natural Resources
Management Board
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MDBNRM
Acronym
MDBA style
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Monitoring Evaluation and Reporting section
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MER
Acronym
MDBA style
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Monitoring and Evaluation Working Group
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MEWG
Acronym
MDBA style
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Murray Irrigation Limited
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MIL
Acronym
MDBA style
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Menindee Lake System
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MLS
Acronym
MDBA style
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Menindee Water Users Group
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MWUG
Acronym
MDBA style
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Metering and Monitoring Service Package
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MMSP
Acronym
MDBA style
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Monitoring and Evaluation
Note: preferred government style is to
not use acronyms
in written communications but spel out in ful terms that
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M&E
are not wel known.
Acronym
DCCEEW
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Monitoring and Evaluation Working Group
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MERWG
Acronym
DCCEEW
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Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations
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MLDRIN
Acronym
MDBA style
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OFFICIAL
#
OFFICIAL#
Monitoring, evaluation, reporting and improvement
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MERI
Acronym
DCCEEW
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Mid-Year Economic Fiscal Outlook (December)
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MYEFO
Acronym
DCCEEW
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Murray–Darling Basin Economic Development Program
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MDB EDP
Acronym
DCCEEW
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Menindee Lakes project
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Menindee
Acronym
DCCEEW
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Use this form for ‘not applicable’ in tables, not lower case
n/a. Use an en dash if there is data missing, not a blank
table cel or hyphen.
Example
Name
Title
John Doe
N/A
Jane Doe
–
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N/A
Spel ing or punctuation Whole of Government
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Write as title case, each word in the name starts with an
Narran Lake Nature
upper case letter.
Spel ing or
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N
Reserve
punctuation;#Places
MDBA style
15/11/2023 14:20 Item
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Write as title case, each word in the name starts with an
upper case letter.
Example
Spel ing or
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Narran Lakes
One of the lakes is called 'Narran Lake'.
punctuation;#Places
MDBA style
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OFFICIAL
#
OFFICIAL#
Use numerals for '2' and above, write the numbers 'zero'
and 'one' in words.
Example
Onlyoneperson agreed to it.Their aim iszeronet emissions
by 2050.They were open to discussing3 options.
In tables, numerals are right aligned, even if they have
decimal points.Use a comma between groups of 4 or
more digits.
Example
1,000 not 1 000 or 10001,000,000 not 1 000 000 or
1000000
Use words to write ordinal numbers up to ‘ninth’ and
numerals for ‘10th’ and above. Ordinals written as
numerals always have a suffix
Australian Government Style
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Numbers, numerals
Manual
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Write in all lower case 'native title' except when writing
Native Title Act 1993 (Cth).
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native title
Spel ing or punctuation Whole of Government
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Write nighttime as one word, not night time.
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nighttime
Spel ing or punctuation Whole of Government
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Northern Basin Aboriginal
Spel ing or
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Nations (NBAN)
punctuation;#Acronym MDBA style
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OFFICIAL
#
OFFICIAL#
Avoid using, unless the numbering is essential.
Example
For steps in a process.
If using numbers:
Number figures and tables consecutively within chapters.
Example
Table 1.1, Table 1.2 etc.
Number subsections in chapters.
Example
Heading 2 should be preceded by a number such as 1.2.
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numbered lists
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
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Write telephone numbers so people can read and use
them easily. Write telephone numbers in a format
appropriate for the location of the users. Put a non-
breaking space between the chunks of digits to stop them
from breaking over lines. Generally on the MDBA website
where the audience can be international, include the
country code. Break telephone numbers into shorter
blocks of digits or chunks.
Example
+61 2 5550 4321 (Australian landline number in
international format)
+61 491 570 159 (Australian mobile number in
international format)02 5550 4321 (landline
number)0491 570 159 (Australian mobile number)1300
975 707 (Australia-wide local-rate number)13 00 00
(Australia-wide local-rate number)1800 160 401
Australian Government Style
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Numbers, phone numbers (Australia-wide freephone number)
Manual
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The Intergovernmental Agreement on a National Water
Initiative between the Commonwealth of Australia and the
governments of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland,
South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania, the
Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory (as
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National Water Initiative
amended from time to time).
Definition
Technical;#The Water Act
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The quantity of water that would have flowed in a river past
a particular point in a particular period but for the effect
during that period of diversions to or from, and
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natural flow
impoundments on, the river upstream of that point.
Definition
Technical
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OFFICIAL
#
OFFICIAL#
The Australian Government is working with the New South
Wales and Queensland governments to implement
environmental works and measures identified in the
Northern Basin Review, col ectively known as the
'Northern Basin Toolkit'.The 6 Northern Basin Toolkit
measures include:
arrangements to protect environmental flowstargeted
recovery of waterevent-based mechanisms (such as
options for pumping and store-and-release)improvements
to the coordination and delivery of environmental
waterenvironmental works and measures to promote fish
movement and habitat (such as building
fishways)removal of physical constraints in the Gwydir
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Northern Basin Toolkit
catchment to improve flows to the wetlands.
DCCEEW website
Definition
Technical
26/11/2023 18:55 Item
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Write as 'northern Basin' with a lower case 'n'. Basin
always starts with upper case 'B'.However the 'Northern
Basin Toolkit' is written in title case.
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northern Basin
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
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The New South Wales Department of Climate Change,
Energy, the Environment and Water was created in 2024.
The department works to protect the state’s environment
New South Wales
and heritage. It leads the way on climate change, driving
Department of Climate
the sustainable transition to a net zero economy, powered
New South Wales Department Spel ing or
Change, Energy, the
by affordable, reliable, and clean energy. Read more on
of Climate Change, Energy,
punctuation;#Preferred
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Environment and Water
the New South Wales Government website.
the Environment and Water
term
Whole of Government
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National Partnership Agreement
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NPA
Acronym
Whole of Government
20/09/2024 9:32 Item
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New Policy Proposals (Federal Budget)
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NPP
Acronym
Whole of Government
20/09/2024 9:34 Item
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Northern Central Catchment Management Authority
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N
NCCMA
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 15:36 Item
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National Carp Control Plan
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N
NCCP
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 15:36 Item
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National Hydrological Model ing Strategy
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NHMS
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 15:37 Item
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National Hydrological Model ing Platform
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NHMP
Acronym
MDBA style
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OFFICIAL
#
OFFICIAL#
Natural Resources Access Regulator
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NRAR
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 15:38 Item
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NSW Office of Environment and Heritage
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NSW OEH
Acronym
MDBA style
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NSW Roads and Maritime Services
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NSW RMS
Acronym
MDBA style
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NSW Soil Conservation Service
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NSW SCS
Acronym
MDBA style
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Native vegetation management plan
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NVMP
Acronym
MDBA style
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National Water Reform Committee
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N
NWRC
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 15:40 Item
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National Indigenous Australians Agency
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NIAA
Acronym
DCCEEW
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National Partnership Agreement
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NPP
Acronym
DCCEEW
23/09/2024 9:32 Item
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National Water Initiative
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NWI
Acronym
DCCEEW
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Northern Basin Review
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NBR
Acronym
DCCEEW
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National Hydrological Model ing Platform / Strategy
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NHMP/S
Acronym
DCCEEW
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National Water Infrastructure Development Fund
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NWIDF
Acronym
DCCEEW
23/09/2024 10:13 Item
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National Water Infrastructure Loans Facility
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NWILF
Acronym
DCCEEW
23/09/2024 10:13 Item
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National Water Market System project
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NWMS
Acronym
DCCEEW
23/09/2024 10:13 Item
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A shared understanding of the condition and trend of
environmental, social, economic and cultural values in
the Basin. The MDBA wil assess risks to these values and
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outlook for the Basin
provide insights into the future condition of the Basin.
Definition
Technical
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The action of making the best or most effective use of a
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optimisation
situation or resource.
Definition
Technical
26/11/2023 18:59 Item
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OFFICIAL
#
OFFICIAL#
order for the production of documents
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OPDs
Acronym
Whole of Government
20/09/2024 10:24 Item
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Operations Advisory Group
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OAG
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 15:41 Item
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Operating Environmental Management Plan
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OEMP
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 15:41 Item
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Off-Farm Efficiency Program
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OFEP
Acronym
DCCEEW
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On-Farm Emergency Water Infrastructure Rebate Scheme
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OFEWIRS
Acronym
DCCEEW
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Commonwealth On-Farm Irrigation Efficiency Program
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OFIEP
Acronym
DCCEEW
23/09/2024 10:15 Item
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Write as 'purple spotted gudgeon', no hyphen between
‘purple’ and ‘spotted’.
Spel ing or
See ‘fish species’.
punctuation;#Flora or
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purple spotted gudgeon
fauna
MDBA style
21/11/2023 13:55 Item
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Use the % symbol not ‘per cent’, no space between the
digits and per cent symbol. However avoid starting a
sentence with numerals or percentages, instead spel out
in ful .
Example
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percentages
It occurred more than 55% of the time.
Manual
punctuation;#Inactive Whole of Government
21/11/2023 14:00 Item
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Lower case unless writing 'the Parliament of Australia',
'the Australian Parliament'. When referencing the
parliament, the
parliamentary chambers: the House (upper case), the
parliament, federal
Senate (upper case).
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parliament
Preferred term
Whole of Government
21/11/2023 14:04 Item
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Total quantity of water permitted to be taken during a
water accounting period in a water resource plan area,
varying from year to year according to the interaction of
climate, inflows, and water resource plan rules (that is
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permitted take
allocation rules, access rules).See 'take'.
Definition
Technical
26/11/2023 18:59 Item
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The sequence of phases through which a project
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project lifecycle
progresses: initiate, plan, execute and close.
Framework
Definition
Technical
26/11/2023 19:02 Item
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Represents the business case to justify and secure
funding for a proposed project. Project proposals are
created and assessed in the PPMS and represent the
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project proposal
‘initiate’ phase of the project lifecycle.
Framework
Definition
Technical
26/11/2023 19:02 Item
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OFFICIAL
#
OFFICIAL#
Water used for environmental outcomes which is not
planned environmental
associated with an entitlement but is managed through
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water
rules set out in water management plans or laws.
Definition
Technical
26/11/2023 19:04 Item
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Encompasses the whole process of acquiring goods and
services including the acquisition of goods and services
on behalf of another entity or a third party.
Commonwealth Procurement
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procurement
Rules
Definition
Technical
26/11/2023 19:04 Item
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Shows the major products, activities and resources
required for the delivery of the project outputs.
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project plan
Definition
Technical
26/11/2023 19:04 Item
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A project management methodology for project
segmentation and prioritisation. A project’s tier
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project tiering
classification determines the reporting obligations for the
Framework
Definition
Technical
26/11/2023 19:04 Item
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Public Governance Performance and Accountability Act
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PGPA Act
Acronym
Whole of Government
20/09/2024 9:35 Item
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Public Governance Performance and Accountability Rules
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PGPA Rules
Acronym
Whole of Government
20/09/2024 10:11 Item
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Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
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PMC
PMC website
Acronym
Whole of Government
20/09/2024 10:12 Item
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prerequisite policy measures
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PPM/PPMs
Acronym
Whole of Government
20/09/2024 10:13 Item
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Parliamentary Document Management System. The
system used in MDBA for tracking correspondence with
ministers' offices.
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PDMS
Acronym
Whole of Government
20/09/2024 10:24 Item
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Parliamentary Questions on Notice
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PQoN
Acronym
Whole of Government
20/09/2024 10:25 Item
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Procurement and Contracts Unit
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PCU
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 15:42 Item
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Priority Environmental Assets
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PEA
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 15:42 Item
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Priority Ecosystem Functions
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PEF
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 15:43 Item
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Planned Environmental Water
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PEW
Acronym
MDBA style
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#
OFFICIAL#
The WRP drafted and submitted for assessment by States,
as per the date stipulated on cover page of assessment
report.
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Proposed WRP
Acronym
MDBA style
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Private Irrigation Infrastructure Operators Program
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PI OP
Acronym
DCCEEW
23/09/2024 10:15 Item
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Private Irrigation Infrastructure Program for South
Australia (aka PIIPSA)
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PI P-South Australia
Acronym
DCCEEW
23/09/2024 10:16 Item
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Quality Assurance
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QA
Acronym
Whole of Government
20/09/2024 10:14 Item
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Questions on Notice
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QoN
Acronym
Whole of Government
20/09/2024 10:25 Item
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Question Time Brief
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QTB
Acronym
Whole of Government
20/09/2024 10:26 Item
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Riverland
Write as 'Riverland' not 'River land'.
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
21/11/2023 13:26 Item
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Spel ing or
Write as 'river red gum' all lower case, 3 words. Not 'River
punctuation;#Flora or
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river red gum
Redgum' or 'River Red Gum'.
fauna
MDBA style
21/11/2023 13:27 Item
acronyms and style guide
Write 'River Murray system' with a lower case 's' on
system.When writing as 'the river system', lower case 'r'
on river.
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River Murray system
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
21/11/2023 13:29 Item
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Write as 'River Murray' or 'the River Murray'.Also see 'River
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River Murray
Murray system'.
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
21/11/2023 13:30 Item
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MDBA 'regional office' not 'regional site'. Write as plural
when referring to multiple offices within a region or state.
Write ‘all offices, excluding Canberra’ in other situations.
Write as lower case 'regional office' except when writing
the names of specific offices.
Example
Adelaide Office, South AustraliaCanberra Office,
Australian Capital Territory (not head office)Goondiwindi
Office, QueenslandGriffith Office, New South
WalesMildura Office, Victoria
Murray Bridge Office, South AustraliaWodonga Office,
Victoria (not Albury-Wodonga Office)
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regional office
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
21/11/2023 13:49 Item
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OFFICIAL
#
OFFICIAL#
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region
Write as lower case in 'Murrumbidgeeregion' etc.
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
21/11/2023 13:51 Item
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Relates to water quality threats such as blue-green algae.
Spel ing or
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red alert
Write as lower case 'red alert'.
punctuation;#Definition MDBA style
21/11/2023 13:52 Item
acronyms and style guide
Write in ful the first time the ‘Convention on Wetlands of
International Importance’, thereafter write as ‘Ramsar
Convention’.
Ramsar, Ramsar
See 'relevant international agreements' and 'international
Whole of
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Convention
agreement'.
Ramsar website
Spel ing or punctuation Government;#Technical
21/11/2023 13:53 Item
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The 2026 Roadmap to the Basin Plan Review is a public-
facing document that helps the community understand
Roadmap to the Basin
the work the MDBA has planned over the next 3 years and
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Plan Review
how people can get involved.
MDBA website
Definition
Technical
24/11/2023 19:23 Item
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River operations means activities under the
Water Act
2007 (Cth) relating to:
(a) the construction, operation, maintenance and renewal
of works on, adjacent to, or connected to the upper River
Murray or the River Murray in South Australia, and
(b) the execution of the provisions of this Agreement
concerning sharing water between State Contracting
Governments
(c) the provision of other services relating to water, to
State Contracting Governments and other persons.Write
in lower case 'river operations' unless starting a sentence
Definition;#Spel ing or
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river operations
or referring to the MDBA Program Area 'River Operations'.
punctuation
The Water Act;#Technical
26/11/2023 17:26 Item
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According to ISO 31000, risk is the “effect of uncertainty
on objectives” and an effect is a positive or negative
International Organization for
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risk
deviation from what is expected.
Standardization (ISO)
Definition
Technical
26/11/2023 17:27 Item
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OFFICIAL
#
OFFICIAL#
Relevant international agreement means the following:
(a) the Ramsar Convention
(b) the Biodiversity Convention
(c) the Desertification Convention
(d) the Bonn Convention
(e) CAMBA
(f) JAMBA
(g) ROKAMBA
(h) the Climate Change Convention
(i) any other international convention to which Australia is
a party and that is:
(i) relevant to the use and management of the Basin water
resources, and
(ii) prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this
relevant international
paragraph.
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agreements
See 'Ramsar Convention' and 'international agreement'.
Definition
The Water Act;#Technical
26/11/2023 17:30 Item
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Registers used for the capture, tracking, and resolution of
identified project Risks, Actions, Issues, and Decisions
(RAID). RAID registers help to cultivate organised and
strategic thinking, control projects, and prevent delays.
They can also serve as a useful communications tool for
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RAID registers
demonstrating the status and progress of a project.
Framework
Definition
Technical
26/11/2023 19:05 Item
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Is the flow resulting from the release of stored water other
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regulated flow
than during, or in anticipation of, floods.
Definition
Technical
26/11/2023 19:05 Item
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A surface water system in which water in a watercourse
can be stored or flow levels are control ed, through the
use of structures such as large dams and large weirs.See
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regulated system
'watercourse'.
Definition
Technical;#The Basin Plan
26/11/2023 19:05 Item
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Any rule endorsed by government where there is an
expectation of compliance. Key elements of regulation
including rules (commands), those who enact the rules
(regulators), actions taken to manage non-compliance
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regulation
(controls), and individuals or organisations expected to
Definition
Technical
26/11/2023 19:05 Item
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The Basin Plan Review wil consider whether the current
regulatory design is fit for purpose and for the future. The
MDBA wil explore how clearly the Basin Plan is
understood and whether it can be simplified to improve
compliance. Principles based on best practice regulatory
design wil be used to identify which elements of the Basin
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Regulatory Design theme Plan should be considered for redesign or refinement.
MDBA website
Definition
Technical
26/11/2023 19:05 Item
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OFFICIAL
#
OFFICIAL#
Readability refers to how easy a piece of text is to read and
understand. It is often measured in terms of reading level.
Reading level is an estimate of the minimum education
level people need to be able to read a piece of text.
The Australian Government Style Manual recommends
writing to a reading level – after the removal of proper
names and titles – of Year 7 (age range 12 to 14 years).
Using literacy statistics, this means around 83% of the
Australian population is likely to understand your
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readability
content.Theonline Hemingway tool can help you achieve
Manual
Spel ing or punctuation Whole of Government
29/11/2023 17:03 Item
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River Murray Data is a web product offered by the MDBA,
as such, the name is written in title case. It should
not be
https://riverdata.mdba.gov.au
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River Murray Data
shortened to River Data or called Riverdata.
/
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
17/09/2024 18:10 Item
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Request for Quote
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RFQ
Acronym
Whole of Government
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RFT
Request for Tender
Acronym
Whole of Government
20/09/2024 10:15 Item
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Content Manager, Records Management System. The
records management system used in the MDBA.
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RM8/CM9
Acronym
Whole of Government
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Regional Engagement Officer
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REO
Acronym
MDBA style
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River Murray Erosion Management Committee
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RMEMC
Acronym
MDBA style
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River Murray Fish Passage Advisory Forum
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RMFPAF
Acronym
MDBA style
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River Murray Increased Flow
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RMIF
Acronym
MDBA style
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River Murray and Mallee Aboriginal Corporation
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RMMAC
Acronym
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RMO
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RMOC
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RMUF
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River Murray Water
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RMW
Acronym
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Riverine Recovery Project
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RRP
Acronym
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Restoring the Balance Program (water purchase under
SRWUIP)
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RtB
Acronym
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Write 'state government' with lower case 's' and 'g'. When
using the name of a state government, use upper case 'G'.
Abbreviate state names within tables.
Basin state governments must be written in a specific
order, not alphabetically.
Example
New South Wales GovernmentVictorian
GovernmentQueensland GovernmentSouth Australian
Whole of
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GovernmentAustralian Capital Territory Government
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Write upper case on the area name, but otherwise lower
case.
The Basin Plan sets sustainable diversion limits which is
how much water can be used in the Basin, while leaving
enough water to sustain natural ecosystems. To provide
flexibility, the Basin Plan includes a mechanism to adjust
sustainable diversion limits.
Example
sustainable diversion limit Campaspe sustainable diversion limit area
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areas (names of)
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
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Write sustainable diversion limit adjustment mechanism
all lower case, unless starting a sentence. In documents
write in ful the first time in any document section,
fol owed by the acronym in brackets.
Spel ing or
Example
punctuation;#Acronym;
sustainable diversion limit The sustainable diversion limit adjustment mechanism
#Water management
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adjustment mechanism
(SDLAM) ...
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stocktake, stocktaking
Write as one word 'stocktake' or 'stocktaking' not 'stock
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
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OFFICIAL
#
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Southern Connected
Basin Environmental
Write with no hyphens: Southern Connected Basin
Watering Committee
Environmental Watering Committee Annual Reports
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Annual Reports
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
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Spel ing or
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southern bel frog
Write 'southern bel frog' all lower case.
punctuation;#Flora or MDBA style
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South Australian–Victorian Write 'South Australian–Victorian border' with en dash, not
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border
hyphen.
Spel ing or punctuation Whole of Government
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Write 'social and economic' instead of socioeconomic or
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social and economic
socio-economic.
Preferred term
MDBA style
21/11/2023 13:16 Item
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Write ‘St’ in preference to ‘Saint’ in place names. No ful
stop after St within the name.
Example
Spel ing or
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St, Saint
St George, Queensland
punctuation;#Places
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within tables or as an adjective.
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state names
See 'state governments'
Spel ing or punctuation Whole of Government
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Surface water includes:(a) water in a watercourse, lake or
wetland, and
(b) any water flowing over or lying on land:
(i) after having precipitated naturally; or
(ii) after having risen to the surface naturally from
underground.
Spel ing or
punctuation;#Definition
Write 'surface water' lower case, 2 words, no
;#Water management MDBA style;#Technical;#The
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surface water
hyphen. However write 'groundwater' as one word, not
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The maximum long-term annual average quantity of water
that can be taken, on a sustainable basis, from the Basin
water resources as a whole, and the water resources, or
particular parts of the water resources, of each water
resource plan area.Write 'sustainable diversion limit' all
lower case. In documents, write out in ful the first time
within each document section followed by the acronym in
brackets.
Spel ing or
punctuation;#Acronym;
#Water management
MDBA style;#The Water
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Example
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#
OFFICIAL#
A trend and current-state condition assessment of the
Murray–Darling Basin across the quadruple bottom line
relative to Basin Plan objectives and outcomes.This is a
2022 election commitment.
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Sustainable Rivers Audit
Definition
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The Basin Plan Review wil consider the environmentally
sustainable level of take (ESLT) and surface water and
Sustainable Water Limits groundwater sustainable diversion limits (SDLs) using the
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theme
best available knowledge.
MDBA website
Definition
Technical
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Supply projects aim to achieve the equivalent
supply projects (down
environmental outcomes with less water – requiring less
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water)
water recovery and leaving more water in the consumptive
Definition
Technical
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Professionals who have advanced knowledge in a specific
subject matter expert
field. As an authority in a particular area or topic, they are
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(SME)
uniquely qualified to provide guidance and strategy.
Definition
Technical
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Developing options to enable decision makers to evaluate
a range of potential outcomes and impacts for both
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scenario planning
positive and negative possibilities.
Definition
Technical
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The water resources, or particular parts of the water
resources, of a water resource plan area that is either a
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SDL resource unit
surface water or groundwater.
Definition
Technical
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Sustainable Yields,
A contemporary water resources assessment based on
Murray–Darling Basin
the latest hydrological and global climate change science.
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Sustainable Yields
This is a 2022 election commitment.
Definition
Technical
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Write as 'southern Basin' with a lower case 's'. Basin
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southern Basin
always starts with upper case 'B'.
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SD
Senior Director
Acronym
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Senate Questions on Notice
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SQoN
Acronym
Whole of Government
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South Australian Riverland Floodplain Integrated
Infrastructure Program
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SARFIIP
Acronym
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Southern Connected Basin
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SCB
Acronym
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Southern Connected Basin Environmental Watering
Committee
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SCBEWC
Acronym
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State constructing committee (Living Murray)
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SCC
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Sustainable Diversion Limit Adjustment Mechanism
Implementation Committee – No longer in force
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SDLAMIC
Acronym
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Socio-Economic Advisory Group
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SEAG
Acronym
MDBA style
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State Environment Protection Policy
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SEPP
Acronym
MDBA style
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Snowy Hydro Limited
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SHL
Acronym
MDBA style
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Salt Interception Technical Working Group
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SITWG
Acronym
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Salinity Management Measures
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SMM
Acronym
MDBA style
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Source Murray Model
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SMM
Acronym
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Share Portfolio Information, Innovation and Lessons
Learned
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SPILL
Acronym
DCCEEW
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State Priority Projects (a suite of state-led infrastructure
projects under SRWUIP – through the MDB IGA)
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SPPs
Acronym
DCCEEW
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South Australia Riverland Floodplain Integrated
South Australia Regulators Infrastructure project
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project
Acronym
DCCEEW
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Strengthening Basin Communities Program
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SBC
Acronym
DCCEEW
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South Australian River Murray Sustainability project
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SARMS
Acronym
DCCEEW
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South Australia Riverine Recovery project
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South Australia RRP
Acronym
DCCEEW
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Sustainable Rural Water Use and Infrastructure Program
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SRWUIP
Acronym
DCCEEW
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T
Tumut River
Spel ing or
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17/11/2023 18:34 Item
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timeframe
Write timeframe as one word, not time frame.
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
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OFFICIAL
#
OFFICIAL#
When writing am and pm times use a colon between the
hours and minutes, and a space before am or pm. No
zeros are needed to show the ful hour.Use noon, midday
or midnight instead of 12 am or 12 pm to make it easier for
people to be certain of the time.
Example
Australian Government Style
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time of day
Standard opening hours are 8:30 am to 5 pm.
Manual
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Spel out in ful . Abbreviate only if used in a table, list or
chart and can be easily understood.
Examples
12 years, 20 days ago, 15 minutes
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time, units of time
Spel ing or punctuation Whole of Government
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In a proposed document such as a plan or strategy use
future tense. Use ‘wil ’, rather than ‘is’ or ‘would’.
Example
‘The proposed strategy wil …’
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tenses
‘The plan wil specify…’
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
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Write as 'task force' 2 words and lower case unless writing
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task force
the name of a specific task force.
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
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tannins
Spel edtannins, not tanins.
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
21/11/2023 13:05 Item
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The recovery volume is based on scientific method and
judgement. It has been determined based on an analysis
of historical data, environmental science, and social and
total reported recovery
economic analysis, as wel as the model ing of different
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volume
future scenarios.
MDBA website
Definition
Technical
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The MDBA proposes to conduct the Basin Plan Review
transparently, meaning that it wil be open and clear as
much as possible, including engaging with a range of
stakeholders and publishing information about the
methods and data that have been used for analysis, policy
proposals and decisions.It was a 2022 election
commitment to restore transparency, integrity and
confidence in water markets and water management.
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transparency
Definition
Technical
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OFFICIAL
#
OFFICIAL#
The Water Act 2007 (Cth) s1.07 defines ‘forms of take’ as
any of the following:
a. take from a watercourse
b. take from a regulated river
c. take by floodplain harvesting
d. take by runoff dams
e. net take by commercial plantations
f. take from groundwater
g. take under basic rights.
Water taken under the forms above may be for
consumptive or environmental purposes.
Planned environmental water is
not a form of take defined
in s1.07 of the Water Act.
See related terms 'permitted take', 'planned
Water management
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take
environmental water'.
101;#Definition
Technical;#The Water Act
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When writing a temperature, for example 24 degrees
Celsius or 98 degrees Fahrenheit:
Use the degrees symbolNo space between the digits and
the degrees symbolNo space between the degrees symbol
and C or FC or F is upper case
Examples
24°C
98°F
Create the degrees symbol by holding down the Alt key
and typing 0 1 7 6 on the numeric keyboard (with Num
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temperature
Lock turned on).
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TOR
terms of reference
Acronym
Whole of Government
20/09/2024 10:17 Item
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Terrestrial Ecosystems Research Networks
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TERN
Acronym
MDBA style
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The Living Murray
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TLM
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 15:57 Item
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Tools and systems
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TSs
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 15:57 Item
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Technical working group salinity model ing
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TWGSM
Acronym
MDBA style
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#
OFFICIAL#
Tasmania Irrigation Tranche II and II (feasibility study)
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Tassie Tranche II or II
Acronym
DCCEEW
23/09/2024 10:18 Item
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Upper Darling (Baaka)
Upper Darling (Baaka) River is written with the First
Spel ing or
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River
Nations name in brackets, and not in italics. Write with
punctuation;#Places
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Spel ing or
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Upper Murray River
Write with upper case 'U'.
punctuation;#Places
MDBA style
17/11/2023 18:20 Item
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Write numerals, not words, for units of measure. Leave a
single space between the numerals and unit symbol. Use
a hard space to keep digits and units of measurement
together, and not breaking across lines. Create a hard
space in Word by holding down the control+shift+space
keys together.
Use the International System of Units symbols, including:
m for metrescm for centimetresmm for mil imetreskm for
kilometreskm/h for kilometres per hourkg for kilogramsW
for wattsdB for decibels
Examples
215 km65 cm60 dB80 km/hrepeat units within ranges:
300 GL to 450 GL (not 300–450 GL)
Australian Government Style
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units of measurement
Manual
Spel ing or punctuation Whole of Government
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Streams that are not control ed or regulated by releases
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U
unregulated streams
from major storages.
Definition
Technical
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U
unregulated flows
Unregulated flows are flows that cannot be stored.
Definition
Technical
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National Urban Water and Desalination Plan
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Urban Water and Desal
Acronym
DCCEEW
23/09/2024 10:19 Item
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For consistency in MDBA written materials use voicemail
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voicemail
one word, not voice mail.
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
16/11/2023 16:15 Item
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valley-by-valley report
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cards
'valley-by-valley' is written with hyphens.
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
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Set out in Division 1, Clause 4 of the Commonwealth
Commonwealth Procurement
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value for money
Procurement Rules - 13 June 2023.
Rules
Definition
Technical
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Victorian Environmental Water Holder
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VEWH
Acronym
MDBA style
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Water Act 1989 (VIC)
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Victorian Water Act
Acronym
MDBA style
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Victorian Murray Floodplain Restoration Project
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VMFRP
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 15:59 Item
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OFFICIAL
#
OFFICIAL#
Victorian Water Register
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VWR
Acronym
MDBA style
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Victorian Murray (surface The geographical area defined by the Basin Plan
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water) WRP area
Acronym
MDBA style
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All submitted documents of the WRP Package that
constitute the WRP for the Victorian Murray (Surface
water)
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Victorian Murray WRP
Acronym
MDBA style
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All submitted documents of the WRP package that
constitute the combined WRP for the Northern Victoria,
Victoria's North and
Victorian Murray and Goulburn-Murray WRP areas
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Murray WRP
Acronym
MDBA style
20/09/2024 16:01 Item
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Victorian Farm Modernisation project
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V
VFM
Acronym
DCCEEW
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Victorian Murray Floodplain Restoration projects
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VMFRP
Acronym
DCCEEW
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Wimmera–Mallee Pipeline
Spel ing or
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Project
Write Wimmera–Mallee with
en dash, not hyphen.
punctuation;#Places
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Wimmera Irrigation
Write as title case, each word in the name starts with an
Spel ing or
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District
upper case letter.
punctuation;#Places
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Water resource plans (WRP) are a key tool for
implementing the Basin Plan. They outline how each
region aims to achieve community, environmental,
economic and Cultural outcomes and ensure state water
management rules meet the Basin Plan objectives. They
set rules on how much water can be taken from the
system, ensuring the sustainable diversion limit is not
exceeded over time. Basin state governments develop
water resource plans.
Lower case when writing about water resource plans
generally. In the title of a water resource plan, upper case
letters for the place name but lower case for ‘water
resource plan’. WRP names are written exactly as
Water management
provided in the Basin Plan.
Water resource plans, MDBA 101;#Spel ing or
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water resource plans
website
punctuation;#Acronym MDBA style;#Technical
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One word, no spaces.
WaterNSW is a state-owned corporation established
under the
Water NSW Act 2014. They supply two-thirds of
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WaterNSW
the water used in New South Wales.
WaterNSW website
punctuation;#Definition Whole of Government
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OFFICIAL
#
OFFICIAL#
Use instead of ‘environmental water’.
This terminology decision was an outcome of the Victorian
Environmental Water Holder in-depth communications
research conducted by Orima Research, 2017, p16
‘Terminology’. It was found the term 'environmental water'
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water for the environment was unclear for members of the community.
Preferred term
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waterhole is one word, not water hole.
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waterhole
Spel ing or punctuation MDBA style
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Water Act 2007 (Cth): use the ful citation the first time
it's written in each chapter of a document, include the
year and write in italics. The jurisdiction of the Act is not
italicised.
When referring to the Act
after the ful title has been used,
shorten to ‘the Water Act’. Don't italicise the name of the
Act unless using the ful citation with the year and
jurisdiction.
Be sure to differentiate between this Act and the Victorian
Water management
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Water Act 2007 (Cth)
legislation of the same name when both appear in the
Water Act 2007 (Cth)
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Spel ing or
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Wagga Wagga
not Wagga.
punctuation;#Places
MDBA style
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The water legislation for New South Wales is the
Water
Water NSW Act 2014
NSW Act 2014 (NSW).
Water management
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(NSW)
Water NSW Act 2014
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Communications materials developed for internal use
within the MDBA. Explainer information and videos. Some
101 information is available on the MDBA'S external
website www.mdba.gov.au but refer to the Bil abong link
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Water Industry Act 2012 (SA) regulates the water and
sewerage industry in South Australia, and governs all
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Water Resources Act 2007 (ACT) provides for the
Water Resources Act 2007 sustainable management of water resources in the
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A perpetual or ongoing entitlement, by or under a law of a
state, to exclusive access to a share of the water
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Water quality refers to the suitability of water for different
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and its natural components and processes, that depends
on periodic or sustained inundation, waterlogging or
significant inputs of water for its ecological integrity and
includes an ecosystem associated with:
(a) a wetland, or
(b) a stream and its floodplain, or
(c) a lake or a body of water (whether fresh or saline), or
(d) a salt marsh, or
(e) an estuary, or
(f) a karst system*, or
(g) a groundwater system
and a reference to a water dependent ecosystem includes
a reference to the biodiversity of the ecosystem.
*Karst is a type of landscape where the dissolving of the
bedrock has created sinkholes, sinking streams, caves,
springs, and other characteristic features. Karst is
associated with soluble rock types such as limestone,
marble, and gypsum. (Further reading:Geoscience
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The Authority may prepare, and publish on its website,
recommendations about where in the Murray–Darling
Basin additional environmental water should be
recovered (environmental water recovery
recommendations). (2) without limiting subsection (1),
environmental water recovery recommendations may
include the following:(a) Priority areas for the recovery of
environmental water. Note: See section 1.07 for the
meaning of recovery of environmental water.
(b) Priorities for the recovery of certain types of water
access rights.
(c) The reasoning on which those priorities are based.
Note: The reasoning may include models used by the
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(a) means any right conferred by or under a law of a State
to do either or both of the following:
(i) to hold water from a water resource
(ii) to take water from a water resource, and
(b) without limiting paragraph (a), includes the following
rights of the kind referred to in that paragraph:
(i) stock and domestic rights
(ii) riparian rights
(iii) a water access entitlement
(iv) a water allocation, and
(c) includes any other right in relation to the taking or use
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The granting of permission, either annual y or on a long-
term basis, to take water from a water source under a
form of take in a Basin state in accordance with that
state’s legal frameworks for take.
Write in ful , and avoid using the acronym unless the term
is used multiple times within a document.
water lawful y accessible See related term 'take'.
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The term watercourse:(a) means a river, creek or other
natural watercourse (whether modified or not) in which
water is contained or flows (whether permanently or from
time to time), and
(b) includes:
(i) a dam or reservoir that col ects water flowing in a
watercourse, and
(ii) a lake or wetland through which water flows, and
(ii ) a channel into which the water of a watercourse has
been diverted, and
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A systematic process of identifying, recognising,
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Water Management Partnership Agreements with the
Basin States under the MDB IGA (sometimes referred to
as 'bilaterals') – SRWUIP infrastructure projects led by
Basin jurisdictions.
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Data in tables, graphs and diagrams should be for
financial years (unless otherwise required for reporting or
legal reasons).If any data is available only by calendar
year, this should be made clear.
When writing a
span of years don't use dashes, use from
and to:from 2015 to 2023. Financial years are an
exception.Write
financial years as2023–24, not
2023–2024. However where financial years cross
centuries write each year in ful ‘The 1999–2000 budget’.
Use an en-dash not a hyphen between years.
Do not use an apostrophe when writing
decades
numerically. Write decades asthe 60s orthe 1930s not the
60’s or the 1930’s.
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