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Allanah Sciberras

BOM boss defends bungled $96m website upgrade

The staggering cost of the BOM's website overhaul has unleashed a political storm. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP PHOTOS)

The newly-minted boss of Australia's national weather agency has tried to shut down a brewing political storm, defending its $96.5 million website overhaul.

Bureau of Meteorology chief executive Stuart Minchin, who is two weeks into the job, defended the cost on Tuesday, saying the website redesign was part of a broader system overhaul, prompted by a 2015 cyber attack.

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