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Gillian Fennell
@stationmum.bsky.social
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Wife, mother, agfluencer - jill of all trades. Trying to make a life not a living in remote outback South Australia. Sequin loving bush badass.
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Not sure I’m away from home at the moment.
March 23, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Reposted by Gillian Fennell
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An audit of BoM's asset maintenance program in the weather observing system by the ANAO is among the worst I've seen. It's scathing and the details are borderline absurd. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environ...
In 2019-20, the bureau modelled what it would cost to maintain and then replace every asset in its inventory over the coming decades and used this work to attract more government funding. The bureau then ignored the modelling and failed to convert it into an operational plan for asset replacement or maintenance. The report found the weather agency developed a draft inventory management plan for replacement parts of its observing system in November 2022 but left it in draft form for the next two years, leading to both critical undersupply and costly overruns of inventory. The BoM failed to achieve 10 per cent of planned maintenance last year. Its solar measurement instruments have returned no data to stakeholders for almost five years. Where instrument or asset failures did occur, 43.3 per cent of these incidents did not meet the agency targets for “mean time to restore” service. “I think it’s well past time for the government to take a look behind the veil of secrecy that the bureau has been operating under since Andrew Johnson came to the helm.” According to the report, bureau management has repeatedly failed to track progress on maintenance and asset management. It promised to deliver reviews and responses to internal audits that went nowhere for years and did not report on the progress of key initiatives, “including the initiative to regularly review progress”.
January 31, 2025 at 10:27 PM
stationmum.bsky.social
Always happy to have a chat with Wes - and he can come visit to see first hand if he likes.
January 31, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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They’ll be back.
December 16, 2024 at 10:47 AM
stationmum.bsky.social
I was wondering where this was at. Saw the original post a while ago.
December 3, 2024 at 10:55 PM