GAWB price monitoring 2025–30
In progress
On 14 December 2023, the Queensland Government directed us to conduct a price monitoring investigation of GAWB’s bulk water supply activities from 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2030 (the price monitoring period). On 23 May 2024, the direction was amended to exclude the consideration of the Fitzroy to Gladstone pipeline from our investigation.
In May 2025, we published our final report that set out our findings on GAWB’s appropriate prices for its bulk water services and explained how we arrived at them. Our next task will be to provide a mid-term report by 31 October 2028.
On 16 June 2025, the Queensland Government directed us to conduct a price monitoring investigation of GAWB’s bulk water supply activities relating to water security assets (including the Fitzroy to Gladstone pipeline) from 1 July 2026 to 30 June 2030.
The key steps in our water security assets price monitoring investigation are outlined below.
| Step | Date |
| GAWB’s submission provided | 5 September 2025 |
| Submissions from stakeholders due | Extended to 27 October 2025 |
| Draft report to be provided to government | 19 December 2025 |
| Draft report to be published | December 2025 |
| Submissions on the draft report due | By 16 February 2026 |
| Final report to be provided to government | By 24 April 2026 |
| Final report published | Early May 2026 |
| Mid-term report | By 31 October 2028 |
We have published our notice of investigation and an information notice to provide information to interested parties. We encourage interested parties to subscribe for email updates on this project here.
Documents
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| 27 October 2025 | Rio Tinto submission – GAWB 2026-30 price monitoring review | pdf, 201.25 Kb | |
| 27 October 2025 | CS Energy submission – Water security assets | pdf, 455.63 Kb | |
| 17 October 2025 | Gladstone Regional Council submission – Water Security Assets Price Review 2027-30 | pdf, 18.31 Mb |
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| 05 September 2025 | GAWB Cover Letter | pdf, 317.13 Kb | |
| 05 September 2025 | GAWB Submission | pdf, 1.64 Mb |
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| 27 June 2025 | GAWB – 2026 price monitoring review – Notice of investigation (FINAL) 270625 | pdf, 95.11 Kb | |
| 27 June 2025 | GAWB 2026 price monitoring review – Referral notice 160625 | pdf, 824.55 Kb | |
| 27 June 2025 | GAWB – 2026 price monitoring review – Information notice (FINAL) | pdf, 101.18 Kb |
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| 14 May 2025 | GAWB price monitoring 2025-30_ final report (REDACTED) | pdf, 2.68 Mb |
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| 12 March 2025 | GAWB Response to draft report – Public Version_Redacted | pdf, 983.61 Kb | |
| 12 March 2025 | GAWB Response to draft report – Attachment 1 – Frontier Economics – price escalators | pdf, 91.17 Kb | |
| 12 March 2025 | GAWB Response to draft report – Attachment 2 – Synergies – WACC | pdf, 286.43 Kb | |
| 12 March 2025 | GAWB Response to draft report – Attachment 3 – Synergies – GAWB pricing principles_Redacted | pdf, 2.28 Mb | |
| 12 March 2025 | Queensland Treasury Corporation submission – GAWB 2025-30 price monitoring review – Feb 2025 | pdf, 246.50 Kb |
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| 12 December 2024 | Draft report | QCA Draft Report – Public version | pdf, 4.13 Mb |
| 12 December 2024 | Consultant report | Aither report | pdf, 2.84 Mb |
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| 12 December 2024 | Submission | Resident 1 submission | pdf, 37.74 Kb |
| 12 December 2024 | Submission | Resident 2 submission | pdf, 37.74 Kb |
| 12 December 2024 | Submission | Resident 3 submission | pdf, 37.74 Kb |
| 12 December 2024 | Submission | Resident 4 submission | pdf, 37.74 Kb |
| 12 December 2024 | Submission | Resident 5 submission | pdf, 37.74 Kb |
| 12 December 2024 | Submission | Resident 6 submission | pdf, 37.74 Kb |
| 12 December 2024 | Submission | Resident 7 submission | pdf, 37.74 Kb |
| 12 December 2024 | Submission | Cement Australia submission | pdf, 736.48 Kb |
| 12 December 2024 | Submission | CA and MGC submission | pdf, 895.04 Kb |
| 12 December 2024 | Submission | Rio Tinto submission | pdf, 4.44 Mb |
| 12 December 2024 | Submission | QTC submission | pdf, 1.08 Mb |
| 12 December 2024 | Submission | Conoco Phillips submission | pdf, 399.51 Kb |
| 12 December 2024 | Submission | Fortescue submission | pdf, 154.98 Kb |
| 12 December 2024 | Submission | Gladstone Regional Council submission | pdf, 7.09 Mb |
| 12 December 2024 | Submission | Northern Oil Refinery submission | pdf, 160.86 Kb |
| 12 December 2024 | Submission | Colin Boyce MP submission | pdf, 293.79 Kb |
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| 31 May 2024 | Submission | GAWB 2025 Regulatory Submission Final Public | pdf, 2.36 Mb |
| 31 May 2024 | Submission | Attachment 1 – Referral and Directions Notice (23 May 2024) | pdf, 4.08 Mb |
| 31 May 2024 | Submission | Attachment 2 – Real Price Escalators – Frontier Economics (23 May 2024) | pdf, 648.98 Kb |
| 31 May 2024 | Submission | Attachment 3 – GAWB Productivity Growth Rate – Frontier Economics (May 2024) | pdf, 728.22 Kb |
| 31 May 2024 | Submission | Attachment 4 – GAWB’s WACC Report – Synergies (May 2024) | pdf, 574.79 Kb |
| 31 May 2024 | Submission | Attachment 5 – Insurance Pricing Report – Marsh (16 May 2024) | pdf, 899.59 Kb |
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| 23 May 2024 | Minister’s direction | Amending referral notice – GAWB | pdf, 177.55 Kb |
| 23 May 2024 | Other documents | Ministerial correspondence – Amending referral notice | pdf, 989.12 Kb |
| 14 December 2023 | Minister’s direction | Initial referral notice – GAWB | pdf, 2.46 Mb |
| 21 December 2023 | Notice | GAWB – Notice of investigation | pdf, 106.25 Kb |
| 21 December 2023 | Notice | GAWB – Guidance notice | pdf, 129.67 Kb |