CEO of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology Dr Andrew Johnson (Image: AAP/Lukas Coch)CEO OF THE AUSTRALIAN BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY DR ANDREW JOHNSON (IMAGE: AAP/LUKAS COCH)

DOLLARS AND SENSE

It cost the Bureau of Meteorology nearly a billion dollars over four years to do a computer upgrade, the CEO told staff last year, before telling Senate estimates on Tuesday that he couldn’t reveal the project’s cost.