Yeah, hypen, we did have sufficient face masks, gloves and hand sanitisers in Australia.
It's just that when this virus was just getting started in places like Australia, Canada etc Chinese companies in those countries were ordered to buy up everything and ship it to China. Apparently, one shipment flown out of Perth contained 3 million face masks, half a million pairs of gloves, protective suits, hand sanitisers etc..all up 90 tons of essential medical supplies all went to China and that was just one shipment.
The only way we weren't prepared was preventing pillaging. The supplies we do have come from the different states stockpiles that were created for such an emergency but we should have had millions more to be available