The Tasmanian government is accused of wasting more than $700,000 of taxpayer money upgrading a motel owned by a Liberal Party member, before abandoning plans to use it as a COVID-19 management site.
The Tasmanian government has been accused of wasting more than $700,000 of taxpayer money upgrading a motel owned by a Liberal Party member, before abandoning plans to use it as a COVID-19 management site.The hotel was refurbished to be used as a COVID case management facility, but it was deemed unsuitable due to storm damage
The revelations have led to calls for the money spent on refurbishing Burnie's Wellers Inn to be recouped. Opposition Leader Rebecca White said the state government needed to try to recoup taxpayer money spent."Tasmanians should be appalled that $700,000 has been spent to upgrade a hotel to house patients with COVID when not one single patient was kept there."Ms White said the government needed to explain how Wellers Inn was selected as a case management hotel and why an expression-of-interest process was not held.
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