Since the start of the 2009–10 season, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology's National Climate Center has publicly released a forecast for the Australian region which focused on the broadscale aspects of the cyclone season, and forecasted how likely it was that a subregion was to see activity above the average as well as how many tropical cyclones may occur within the basin and each of its subregions.
Since the start of the 2009–10 season, the National Climate Center of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology has released forecasts for the Australian region. These forecasts focused on broad-scale cyclone characteristics and predicted above-average activity in specific subregions or the number of tropical cyclones expected within the basin and its divisions.