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The pile on continues on the Bureau of Meteorology for their controversial website redesign, which we now understand has cost $96m.

Over on Sunrise this morning, Labor cabinet minister Tanya Plibersek and Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce both say it’s not a great look for the BoM.

When we came to government there was a rebranding exercise going on where the asking people to call it the Bureau instead of the BOM. I said at the time we needed to focus on the weather and not rebranding. are some grades necessary, the security systems on the computers of the Bure

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