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The transfers ended years of frustration for members of each community, angry that the introduction of the MacDonnell Shire Council on 1 July 2008 also meant that their local store was now held by that organisation as one of its assets (see more).

At its council meeting of 19 March 2010, the MacDonnell Shire Council instructed executive management to facilitate a transfer of the Santa Teresa and Titjikala stores to suitably licensed community-based corporations as soon as such community corporations can be established.  Further, Council recommend that Outback Stores contracts be honoured as part of the transfer process to community corporations (see more).

As a result of these resolutions, Bowden McCormack was engaged to act on behalf of the Titjikala Community Store Aboriginal Corporation and to incorporate and act on behalf of the Santa Teresa Store Trust.  In this role, Bowden McCormack successfully negotiated and completed the transfer of each store to its respective entity.