It sounds like the Radar debacle is just symptomatic of a culture of mediocracy that exists at the BOM and Public serice in general and of course no accountability for anything...

Just so much waste and inefficiency..almost a billion dollars spent on a computer and so much of it on "consultants"...

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/06/bureau-of-meteorology-super-computer-delays-bungle-summer-weather-fire-cyclone-alert-warning?bingParse

There should be an inquiry into whole department is run..something stinks badly...whether its kickbacks for contracts or just pure stupidity but its just a trainwreck.

and may as well have one for the ABC as well...its so dissapointing that what was once a great platform for rural australia has been hijacked and turned into a mouthpiece for the inner city leftists..