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Port Augusta City Safe program axed, negatively impacting vulnerable community, services say
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Robert Murray utilises Stepping Stones since City Safe was defunded.
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Frontline service providers say the scrapping of an outreach service which helps reduce criminal charges and incarceration is negatively impacting a large group of vulnerable, transient communities visiting the South Australian city of Port Augusta from Central Australia for the hotter summer months.
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Port Augusta s City Safe program ran for more than a decade before funding stopped in September
Port Augusta Council says while the program was very effective, funding is a state and federal government responsibility ....

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