Senator Abetz asked the Minister representing the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities, upon notice, on 17 May 2012: With reference to forecasts made by the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM): (1) For the first three months of 2012, did BoM forecast: (a) that most of eastern Australia, including all of Victoria and New South Wales, would exceed the median maximum temperature; (b) that only a small part of south Western Australia bordering the Indian Ocean would have a significantly lower than average maximum temperature; (c) that minimum temperatures across all of northern Australia and Western Australia would be higher than average; (d) that all of South Australia, more than half of Queensland and Victoria, and approximately half of New South Wales would have below average rainfall; and (e) higher than average rainfall in Western Australia. (2) For each of the above paragraphs, from (a) to (e), what do the actual recordings now indicate.