Disasters like the BoM website update exemplify exactly why we need to build capacity in the public service and reduce our over reliance on consultants. A robust public service will always provide better value for money and better quality for the taxpayer dollar.

@NadiaWa35758056 We need a specific department of IT, staffed with expert coders and IT security specialists.

Strongly agree Barbara. A saying I learnt working for Defence was: “A consultant borrows your watch to tell you the time.” Finding out the time from a consultant is never free!

The BoM 'upgrade' was shocking, but I highly doubt that a govt dept would be better. The BoM debacle is a classic case of 'don't fix anything that isn't broken'. Please don't throw any more of our money anywhere on behalf of BoM. PS. CO2 DOES NOT drive any form of climate change.

The private sector can do a lot of these better than any bureaucracy. But a lot of cost increase comes because the public service struggles to adequately scope projects and then make constant changes along the way - because they can and no one says no!! And there are many many stakeholders and hundreds of meeting. It all costs money.,So, the cost is not just consultants ripping off the system. And there’s a lot of that too. But working with the public service can be a frustrating process and with a lot of wasted work. What you need are a few good managers. At the moment there are just about as many managers as workers!!

So well said. The outsourcing in so many areas of Government at the Federal and State level has been an abysmal failure as has the SES gravy train since it inception in the 80’s. It’s actually gutted frank and fearless advice, replacing it with sycophancy just after the coin.

Oh come on…this is comedy gold

Barb is brainless. Her beloved Public Servants created this shitshow and she wants to employ more of them FFS!!

Hahaha 🤣 That's gold 🤣🤣 The epitome of trying to turn a negative (💩) into a positive. You bunch of inept clowns!

The BoM website debacle was down to Murray Watt’s incompetence as Minister. He should have been reviewing the proposed changes, with key stakeholders. He’s not up to the responsibilities of a Minister.

The emphasis on robust Some of those fronting the senate lately look less than impressive as well as being paid well above any apparent worth

Make Merit based appointments Great Again

@AdyLady9969 Believe previous Government sacked All Long term experienced Public Servants whilst in power.....they didn't think that one through....Did They?

The root of all this, as we well know, is corruption. The NACC, as we well know, is deliberately flawed. The NACC Commissioner, as we well know, is the primary reason the NACC has achieved FA. The ONLY mechanism to fix this is for a politician to move a Motion.👇🏻

lol all public servants do is increase costs!!! They could’ve outsourced this to Microsoft or Google and it’d be done for $5m and even that would have been expensive

Well that’s saying something. Because bureaucrats are way overpaid. And it’s our money being wasted in those jobs for the boys

You're assuming the public service would do better than the consultants. I see little to have that kind of faith in the ability of the public service to do anything with efficiency. #auspol @LibertariansAus

Current value for properly behaving public service providers is $249,513,000,000.

Absolutely. Shareholders of privatised businesses getting rich off our taxes is #CORRUPTION 101. #ReversePrivatisation

BOM asked me to review their App. I did just that $96M AUD. Where's our money back?

Jesus! Public servants fucked it so let's hire more! Couldnt make that shit up!

Senator, Have you been able to discover the basis of the original BoM need to undertake the significant upgrade and the thread of the budgetary funding requirement to accomplish it ? There must be some underlying docs which authorise the appropriations. 🤷

Especially when they choose Accenture Australia, owned by an Irish company whose main shareholders are Vanguard and BlackRock.

To be fair, if the public service had done this we’d still have the old site.

@SpudBenBean This was a failure of public service governance & contract management. Recruiting more IT people isn’t the answer. Why? These home-grown public service IT failures: - GovERP 2024: abandoned ($340 mill) ❌ - Integrated Cargo System 2005: collapsed for weeks ($225 million) ❌

The Vic EPA have spent millions updating their waste tracking system - which was needed. However as a receiver of waste you could not search the database for material you logged as being received by date. And when they did allow it they used 'Zulu' time not Vic time.

What utter bullshit!!🖕🖕

Absolutely it will. But then how will the mates of govt access their lucrative corporate welfare?

Just reduce the public service

Was it a disaster? A disaster? There are many disasters. Climate change is one. The BOM update? If you think that is a disaster then you are a mindless fool.

The new BOM website failed to show big incoming storms with hail in SEQ last week. Relying on BOM info is now actually dangerous. It serves no purpose at all.

The over bloated public service. And you want more pen pushers.

Yes and no. I work in website redesigns and companies should not have the BAU workforce required to do a redesign of this scale. That said, McKinsey was a very poor choice by the Morrison Government to take on this redesign and they failed. Change management is also needed.

Give the mont back like we all havetoo

I know some fresh faced college graduates who would build it for 20k.

Someone in gov has to sign off on the scope and budget…