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Stephanie Gardiner

Bank closures 'rob towns of new beginning'

Senator Perin Davey is heading a taskforce looking at the effect of bank closures on regional areas. (AAP)

The closure of a rural bank was once seen as the beginning of the end for a small town.

Now, with more people moving to regional Australia, bank closures are robbing some communities of a new beginning, the federal government's Regional Banking Taskforce has been told.

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