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Roads a dangerous disgrace

Phoebe Doyle

AN underfunded state of disrepair. That is how regional Australian roads have been described in a new report, which has called on the federal and state governments to step in and take some of the burden off local councils. A report released by Grattan Institute earlier this week estimated that a “gradual erosion of untied […]

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