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Swan Hill rates skyrocket against leafy Melbourne suburbs

Peter Bannan

SWAN Hill residents are paying higher than average rates than those living in the affluent Melbourne suburbs of Toorak and Brighton, the Victorian Ombudsman has found. An investigation into how local councils responded to ratepayers in financial hardship found that as a whole, council hardship practices compared poorly with sectors such as energy and water […]

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