Updated 12 October 2026 with data up to 30 June 2026

This page presents a list of holders of allocation accounts who frequently traded water in the Goulburn and Murray river systems in each financial year since 1 July 2024.

The Victorian Government committed to publishing a list of frequent traders of water in response to the 2019 and 2020 consultation on water market transparency. Through this consultation, it was clear that the community wanted more transparency in certain aspects of the water market, balanced with an appropriate level of individual and commercial privacy.

Under these same commitments a similar report, the large water share owners report, has been published yearly since 2019–20 including the names of companies that hold over 2% of high-reliability shares in Northern Victoria, including breakdowns for the Goulburn and Murray systems.

An updated Water Market Trends report, published in December 2025, includes additional de-identified summary information about the volume of water traded by frequent traders historically.

Who qualifies as a frequent trader of water?

This report defines frequent traders as the owners of individual allocation accounts that have, during a water year, completed more than 20 allocation trades which are:

• approved
• priced (i.e. commercial)
• within, from, or to the Goulburn water system (zones 1A, 1B, and 3) or the Murray water system (zones 6, 6B, and 7).

This report lists the names of individuals and organisations that meet the above criteria.

• Where there are multiple owners of a single allocation account, all owners’ names are listed.
• No attempt is made to add up trading activity undertaken by a party over multiple allocation bank accounts (ABA).

The names of Frequent Traders in this report are grouped by the source water system of their ABA.

• The name of an account holder will appear in the Frequent Trader list against each water system where they hold an ABA that meets the Frequent Trader criteria.
• If an account holder has more than one ABA in a water system that qualifies as a frequent trader account, the account holder’s name will appear in the list for that water system only once.
• For interstate trades into the Goulburn or Murray systems, only transactions within Victorian ABAs are counted for the purposes of this report (for example, a NSW seller trading more than 20 times into Victorian Murray ABAs will not appear in this list).

Qualifying to be on this list does not indicate any wrongdoing. Many parties rely on water allocation markets as part of their business model. The list simply provides transparency about account holders who have made more than twenty priced allocation trades in the Goulburn and Murray systems during the water year to date.

In some cases, trusts and intermediaries may hold and trade allocation water in their accounts on behalf of other parties. 

Frequent traders of water during 2025-26

This report shows allocation account holders who completed more than 20 priced allocation trades in the Goulburn and Murray river systems during the 2025-26 water year.

Parties that meet the criteria of a frequent trader for each water year are listed below.

Publishing this information

Part 5A of the Water Act 1989 sets out the purpose of the Victorian Water Register, including to make information about water markets publicly available. This information was published in accordance with section 84EA.