November 23, 2025
Nationals Leader David Littleproud has called for a review into “the sheer waste of money” spent on the Bureau of Meteorology’s new website.
Mr Littleproud said the total cost of the website was $96 million.
“It is unbelievable a private consultancy was paid $78 million to redesign the website, but then security and system testing meant that Australian taxpayers actually paid $96 million for what was nothing more than another Labor disaster,” Mr Littleproud said.
“The seriousness of this cannot be understated. This isn’t just about a clunky website, the changes actually put lives and safety at risk.
“The new platform did not allow people to enter GPS co-ordinates for their specific property locations, restricting searches to towns or postcodes.
“Families and farmers could not access vital, localised data such as river heights and rainfall information and this missing data created panic and fear across communities.
“But now, the fact the BOM has been hiding the true cost of its white elephant and initially lying about the total figure is deeply concerning, considering that the BOM should be all about trust.”
Please revert the new radar sites back to the old, same as. As it was not broken. It was very good. Now, luckily I have been able to get it on reg.bom.gov.au radar. Please make the site work properly, as it had been before your stuff up.
Gympie – Mt Kanigan: https://reg.bom.gov.au/products/IDR082.loop.shtml
Toowoomba: https://reg.bom.gov.au/products/IDR1082.loop.shtml
Brisbane – Marburg: https://reg.bom.gov.au/products/IDR502.loop.shtml