Billionaire shopping centre owner Shaun Bonétt wants Prime Minister Scott Morrison to start wearing a face mask and for their use to be mandatory in all public places nationwide to help battle the pandemic and remove confusion created by some retailers demanding their use while others do not.

If governments do not make masks compulsory, he is urging the big retail chains including Woolworths, Coles and Aldi to require customers to wear masks while shopping in their stores.