Environment minister tells bureau chief that revamp is ‘not meeting many users’ expectations’. Follow updates live
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Watt will introduce Labor’s new nature laws to parliament tomorrow and remains adamant the reforms can pass before Christmas despite resistance from the Coalition and the Greens.
The Albanese government will immediately push for a 25-day parliamentary inquiry into its planned rewrite of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC Act), which would report back just in time for the legislation to clear the Senate before parliament rises on 27 November.
Every day of delay on these reforms is hurting our environment and costing business time and money. The Coalition and the Greens must decide whether or not they will back these important reforms or team up to delay them yet again. Will they put their own political gain ahead of the environment and business, or will they support our important laws.
It’s clear that the new BOM website is not meeting many users’ expectations, with a significant range of feedback provided to the Bureau in recent days.
In the meeting, I made clear my expectations that the BOM needed to consider this feedback and, where appropriate, adjust the website’s settings as soon as possible. This includes urgent consideration of improvements to the website’s functionality and useability.
Australians deserve to have confidence in these important services … I strongly encourage Australians to continue to provide feedback to the BOM, to ensure changes can be made where needed.
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