US software company Salesforce gave NDIS officials gifts worth more than $100 on 45 occasions
by Sarah Basford Canales from World news | The Guardian on (#6NN6C)
Documents submitted by the company to a parliamentary inquiry also detail meetings between Salesforce and former minister Stuart Robert at his request
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US software company Salesforce has disclosed it gave gifts worth more than $100 to NDIS officials at least 45 times between 2019 and 2023, including wining and dining them at ritzy restaurants and bars in Melbourne and Canberra.
The information - submitted by Salesforce to a parliamentary inquiry scrutinising contract arrangements by the NDIS and Services Australia under the former Coalition government - appears at odds with the disability insurance agency's earlier answers it had no evidence staff had received gifts or benefits from Salesforce.
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