Morning Mail: ATO’s $42m debt collector contracts; teacher shortages bite; inside the nitazenes threat

The ATO has referred hundreds of thousands of taxpayers to the debt collection company Recoveriescorp. Composite: Guardian Design/Supplied

Good morning. Today we reveal the scale of the contracts given by the Australian Taxation Office to Recoveriescorp, a measure of the ATO’s increasing reliance on the private debt collector.

Meanwhile, staff shortages are cutting deep in schools across Australia: we take a look at where the need is being most keenly felt.