Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

asked the Minister representing the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities, in writing, on 17 May 2012:

With reference to forecasts made by the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM):

(1) For the first three months of 2012, did BoM forecast:

(a) that most of eastern Australia, including all of Victoria and New South Wales, would exceed the median maximum temperature;

(b) that only a small part of south Western Australia bordering the Indian Ocean would have a significantly lower than average maximum temperature;

(c) that minimum temperatures across all of northern Australia and Western Australia would be higher than average;

(d) that all of South Australia, more than half of Queensland and Victoria, and approximately half of New South Wales would have below average rainfall; and

(e) higher than average rainfall in Western Australia.

(2) For each of the above paragraphs, from (a) to (e), what do the actual recordings now indicate.