Many challenges continued to face the Bureau in 2003-04. Examples included:

• the relocation of the Bureau's Head Office and Victorian Regional Office to 700 Collins St, Docklands;
• the significant requirement for climate-related information by agriculturalists and water resource managers as a consequence of the drought in southeast Australia;
• changes in observation programs such as the relocation of the Launceston Meteorological Office;
• establishing continuing efficiencies to provide more complete and user-targeted products and services; and
• improving the Bureau's overall communications capability.