Essentially, our weather bureau spent $750,000 on corrupt marketing contracts, and PR, to attempt a weirdly authoritarian rebrand, and force members of the public to call it "The Bureau", instead of the widely-recognised BOM...
But it's so much worse than that. To the point of complete fucking insanity. The Saturday Paper article is particularly detailed about it. But to say that some really bad shit was clearly happening in this department of the public service is an understatement and a half...
That started under a "conservative" government, too... The fuck is going on??
Oh, this shit gets even better (this one is on a national level, though):
https://spectator.com.au/2022/10/bom-shell/
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2022/10/22/exclusive-toxic-culture-has-plunged-the-bureau-meteorology-chaos#mtr
Essentially, our weather bureau spent $750,000 on corrupt marketing contracts, and PR, to attempt a weirdly authoritarian rebrand, and force members of the public to call it "The Bureau", instead of the widely-recognised BOM...
But it's so much worse than that. To the point of complete fucking insanity. The Saturday Paper article is particularly detailed about it. But to say that some really bad shit was clearly happening in this department of the public service is an understatement and a half...
That started under a "conservative" government, too... The fuck is going on??