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A complaint about the behaviour of Sports Minister Corey Wingard during a meeting with the head of the state’s peak grassroots sporting organisation has been referred to the Commissioner for Public Sector Employment for independent investigation, Premier Steven Marshall has confirmed.
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EXCLUSIVE | State sporting groups are pleading with the Marshall Government to rethink a new funding model they say is “ripping the heart out of the sector” and sending grassroots organisations to the wall, with one warning it will be forced to close its doors at the end of the month.
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