Through the 2005-06 Budget, the Government provided additional funding over the following four years of: $0.884m for implementation of the Australian-United States Free Trade Agreement; $9.519m for Field Meteorological Office Replacement; and $48.566m for the Australian Tsunami Warning System (Indian and Pacific Oceans). Supplementation of $4.444m provided through Supplementary Additional Estimates and careful management of staffing numbers in the second half of the year resulted in a small operating surplus.

Further information on the financial performance of the Bureau of Meteorology is available in the financial statements, commencing on page 133 of this report.