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Suppliers of unusable PPE should pay back taxpayer money, Australian peak doctors’ group says
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Australia’s peak doctors’ group says the government should recover taxpayer funds from PPE suppliers who provided defective equipment at the height of the pandemic.
Guardian Australia revealed last month that the former government handed a PPE contract worth more than $100m to a small, relatively unknown online retailer, whose previous experience involved selling robot vacuum cleaners, massage guns, bedding and air fryers.
Read the original article at The Guardian