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Cost of cash worth every penny in bush, bank probe told
After the Black Summer bushfires tore through rural Victoria, one town banded together to buy a new firefighting tanker. The fundraiser in East Gippsland was a cash collection, something that may not have been possible without a local bank. Rural councils have told a Senate inquiry examining regional bank closures that cash and face-to-face transactions […]