Residents in a major mining and farming community are fighting the closure of a Westpac branch saying the move is 'unacceptable'.
abc.net.au/news/westpac-bank-branch-closure-cloncurry-sparks-community-outrage/101956028Community leaders and residents in north-west Queensland have been left outraged after Westpac announced it was closing its Cloncurry bank branch.
The Cloncurry Shire Council has launched a petition to block the branch closure and is set to hold talks with a government relations representative. "We can't operate our event without cash. And if there's no bank here, I don't know where we would go for all those resources we need to run an event. "It's no small amount of money coming through Westpac in Cloncurry, they would be dealing with clientele from the grazing properties that make up over 20 million acres of country in the north-west here," he said.
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