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Monitor IBAC referral, critical copper losses, and the end of an era – #623

  • Kingston City Council refers monitor invoices to IBAC
  • Backlash as Shoalhaven approves $14m sale of 20 properties
  • Greater Bendigo to hand maternal & child health services back to the state government
  • A win for Woolworths; Wingecarribee Council’s supermarket refusal overturned
  • Cairns Regional Council hit by major copper cable theft affecting critical water infrastructure
  • Peterborough District Council adopts 12% rate rise after wastewater fund diversion revelations
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