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You can expand the municipal area, but if there are very few people in that expanded area, the cost of collecting any tax would be more than the taxes that could be collected. In other words expanding the borders of your municipality as a basis for increasing your tax base would be futile. It may have been expanded to include communities (a majority living on welfare) that would be dependent on the town for health services etc. that would be government funded by the national population as a whole.
There is not very much outside Mt Isa, other than a few towns, the nearest being cloncurry 120 kilometres away.
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