Suppliers of unusable PPE should pay back taxpayer money, Australian peak doctors’ group says

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Australian health department spokesperson says it is ‘exploring options for viable cost-recovery’

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.

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