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All remaining Covid breach matters in the local, children’s, and district courts have been put on hold temporarily following a NSW Supreme Court decision that annulled most fines handed out during the COVID.
Communities across the Western Plains were among the hardest hit during the peak. Walgett and Brewarrina had the highest rate of fines across the state, with Warren, Gilgandra, and Bourke residents also featuring amongst the top 10 most penalised for Covid offences suburbs in the state.
The Supreme Court decision found that 33,000 of the 62,000 fines handed out state-wide needed more detail and therefore withdrawn…