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Andrew Brown

'Didn't get it right': BOM defends website cost blowout

The weather bureau's redesigned website is copping criticism over its cost and content changes. (Nadir Kinani/AAP PHOTOS)

The head of the Bureau of Meteorology admits the agency did not properly rollout its controversial website overhaul, but is defending the massive cost blowout.

Bureau chief executive Stuart Minchin faced a grilling at a late-night Senate estimates hearing on Monday after the organisation came under mounting pressure for its website redesign.

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