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Anger over firefighting assets ‘sleight-of-hand’

Peter Bannan

A “CYNICAL, financial sleight-of-hand” is how Murray River Council Mayor Chris Bilkey has described the determination by the NSW Government that local Rural Fire Service mobile assets are the property of councils. This long-standing dispute for many NSW councils over the accounting treatment of the assets came to a head after the Auditor-General’s 2021 Report […]

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