Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Environment and Water) Share this | Hansard source

Thanks, Senator Cadell. I know you have a genuine interest in these matters. You will have seen that, last week, I made public comment on this matter, and I recognised the very large number of complaints that had been received about the changes the Bureau of Meteorology had made to their website. As a result of that, I had a meeting with the Acting CEO of the BoM. I explained to him my view that, clearly, the new website did not meet users' expectations, and I asked him to consider urgent changes to the website. I'm pleased that they took that feedback on board and have begun making changes. I was not personally briefed or involved about the new website, certainly not verbally. I don't recall ever seeing a written brief about that as well. I'm not aware of my office having been involved. I'm not sure what my department's involvement was, but I'm happy to come back with any further information I may have. But I was not personally involved.