The BOM Website Debacle
Article Mark Neugebauer Article Mark Neugebauer

The BOM Website Debacle

The BOM Website Debacle: The legacy Political Parties like to blame each other, but is there a more fundamental issue

Article by Mark Neugebauer

The controversy surrounding the Bureau of Meteorology’s website overhaul is not just a story of a bungled IT project or a cost blowout. It is a symptom of a deeper, structural problem in Australian governance—one that neither major party seems willing to confront, because both are complicit in creating and maintaining it. For Australians for Better Government (ABG), the BOM saga is precisely the sort of failure that exposes why our country needs a more transparent, accountable and modern system of executive leadership.

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