The state government has already spent more than $6.5 million to extract asbestos from more than 100 Queensland state schools in this financial year alone. Audits of the hazardous material have been underway for years.
Audits cost $1,854,410 in 2019-20, while in 2018-2019 the figure was $1,607,984 and in 2017-2018 they cost $1,574,230.
In a response to questions from the ABC last month, the Education Department said within an hour of receiving advice of the incident, a clean-up crew and hygienist were dispatched to the school to begin a decontamination process, and that the Sunnybank air-conditioning contractor had been suspended.
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