Frustrated journalists have alleged the Australian government is wasting taxpayer money by paying a PR firm to simply copy and paste existing Covid vaccination data into a daily email to media.
The PR firm does not provide any additional detail on the vaccine rollout or present the data in a less rigid format than PDF, which often frustrates researchers and data analysts.
No information about the contract has been displayed on the public database of government tenders, AusTender.
The article, published in The Guardian, comes amid growing concern about procurement diligence going out the window during the Covid crisis.
