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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 2024
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Northern Victorian Summit:
Region’s Water Future in Jeopardy AROUND 100 regional leaders gathered last Friday, August 23 at the Northern Victorian Basin Water Summit held in Bendigo to address the renewed and imminent threat to northern Victorian communities due to changes in the Federal approach to the Murray Darling Continued Page 8 Basin Plan.
BUSINESSES TARGETED... Despite reports that crime is down in Greater Shepparton Since COVID, local businesses have been targeted by callus thieves, stealing goods and cash, causing damage to property and homes, and sending insurance premiums through the roof. Photo: Aaron Cordy
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Thieves target local businesses BUSINESSES in Shepparton and Mooroopna have been targeted by criminals in a series of break-ins in recent months, with some businesses being hit more than once by the callous thieves. For one devastated business owner, who
wished to remain nameless out of fear of being continually targeted, it is not just the stress of knowing criminals have been on their property, causing damage, and stealing goods and cash, it is the mess that owners have to clean up so they can open the shop to the public.
Tacked on to the devastation of knowing someone has violated their business, one owner was told by his insurer that if his business is robbed again, they would be hit with a spike in their insurance premium going from $5,000 up to a staggering $25,000. Continued Page 10