TP Fort
Glen Le Lievre
30 June 2020
‘We are trying to reassure people that removing all of the lavatory paper from the shelves of supermarkets probably isn’t a proportionate or sensible thing to do at this time.’
- Brendan Murphy, Australia’s Chief Medical Officer, 4 March 2020
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