The Bureau of Meteorology paid an external communications consultancy almost $70,000 to rebrand it “the Bureau” with staff claiming they were treated like “naughty schoolchildren” if they slipped up and referred to it as “the BoM”.
Environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, said on Tuesday she did not “quite understand” why the Bureau commenced a rebrand to update its name and logo, saying she was not focused on those factors during the severe flooding across much of the eastern seaboard.
