Cameron Caldwell (Fadden, Liberal National Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I rise to speak on behalf of my community in relation to the concerns they've had about the botched BOM interface update that has been undertaken by this government. To all Queenslanders out there: we understand the importance of this service to you, particularly those of you in regional and rural parts of Queensland. I have taken the opportunity to write to the minister to express our community's concerns, because this has genuine impacts on our local community.

I'm very pleased to have received some correspondence from interested local residents. One resident, Louise, has been a business analyst for 15 years, working mostly on large IT projects in state and federal government. Amongst other things, she has quite reasonably asked that taxpayers be given an explanation as to what has happened with the project: 'There needs to be lessons learnt, captured and acknowledged to avoid more of the same in the future.' Another resident, Mark, says: 'I don't know exactly why the BOM changed the radar, but it is for the worse. It doesn't zoom as much, and it is worse for boaties, as it doesn't have any observations. Pressure needs to be put on them to change it back or make it better, not worse.' It's a pretty fair request, and one which has also been made by the Premier of Queensland, David Crisafulli. He says: 'We want a website that people can understand. For $4.1 million, you wouldn't think that would be too much to ask.' (Time expired)