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Your Say: Power price comparisons

Feb 13, 2024 | Article, This Week's Issue, Your Say | 0 comments

YOUR SAY

Your Say: Cliff Hignett, Naracoorte
(News 24/1/24)
I enjoyed Cr Grundy’s good old fashioned rant about how ‘power prices are ruining local businesses’. (Apparently farmers can’t afford to turn on their irrigation pumps) Most of what he says are worn out rumours that could have come from a Liberal party songbook of 15 years ago.
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