Two years on and $21 million spent

In Australia two years ago the government had an app to track Covid cases created, this cost taxpayers $21 million dollars, the application to identify only a handful of unique positive cases.

Only two positive COVID-19 cases were identified through the app which were not found by manual contact tracers since it launched in April 2020

The application also only identified 17 close contacts that hadn’t been identified through other tracing methods.

So, I’m not a software/ app developer but how the hell the government paid $21 million dollars of tax payers money on a app that was a steaming pile of garbage and decommissioned 2 years later is beyond me, surely it doesn’t cost that much money to make right?