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

I am the minister, Senator McKenzie, and that's why, as the minister, I had a meeting at the time with the acting CEO of the BOM and explained that I didn't think their actions and management of this met public expectations. I asked them to consider urgent changes, which they began making within a couple of days of that. They have also indicated that they will be making further changes to that website, which I think is the right thing to do.

Is in terms of the cost of this website upgrade, the BOM's earlier statements to the effect that the cost had been around $4 million were one aspect of this program. They subsequently clarified that there was more to it than just the public-facing website. I do think that they could have been more fulsome, shall we say, in what they said at the time. We've now had—