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Development agencies welcome new ministers with defence of their budgets

Development agencies welcome new ministers with defence of their budgets

Bureaucrats who run federal economic development agencies seem keen to defend their ability to hand out more than $1.3 billion a year to small and medium-sized businesses.

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