Western Australia has again been the big winner from the GST carve-up, receiving about $6 billion more in the next financial year than it would have without the guaranteed floor in place.
Katina Curtis and Jessica Page
The loudest critic of Western Australia’s GST deal has put up his hand to join the body carving up the tax revenue — but Saul Eslake concedes he might only get the job to shut him up.
Katina Curtis
A senior Liberal has been slapped down over a proposal to tie States’ GST shares to housing development, with a WA colleague labelling the comments as ‘wrong’.
Dylan Caporn
Anthony Albanese has pounced on what he labelled a ‘threat’ by a Liberal senator to cut GST payments to jurisdictions that don’t fulfil their housing targets.
Rebecca Le May
The Albanese Government is going after Peter Dutton on GST, telling West Australians they stand to lose $36.5 billion in GST receipts if the Coalition wins the next Federal election.
Joe Spagnolo
GST whinger-in-chief Saul Eslake has claimed WA’s nation-leading financial position was achieved ‘not by the hard work of many Western Australians’ but is rather the result of dumb luck and China.
An east coast economist has attacked the Federal Government’s assurances on WA’s GST share, labelling it the worst public policy decision of the century.
Katina Curtis and Dan Jervis-Bardy
Christian Watters was elbow deep in dishes at one of his six cafes when he received a phone call from a WA Treasury official demanding to know why he had not yet submitted his payroll tax forms.
Josh Zimmerman
Nationals Leader Shane Love has vowed to use WA’s GST windfall to slash payroll tax for more than 11,000 businesses in his first major pitch to voters ahead of the 2025 election.
Rita Saffioti hit back at the Australian Financial Review — and South Australia — for criticising WA’s share of the GST.
Jake Dietsch
Premier Roger Cook has told his NSW counterpart the State needed to ‘live within its means’, defending the GST deal which has netted WA billions of additional dollars.
You don’t have to have been in last Friday’s national treasurers’ meeting to know it was heated.
From the suburbs to the States, Australia has a problem when it comes to spats.
Kate Emery
Michaelia Cash has fired a salvo at the whingers in the east, saying former PM Scott Morrison “got that right” when he introduced new GST laws to protect WA.
After complaining for years about WA’s share of the GST carve-up, Victoria has remained strangely silent after cashing in on the hard work of other resource-rich States.
Paul Murray
WA Premier Roger Cook has unleashed on the ‘whingers’ from NSW as a new war erupts over the GST carve up
Dan Jervis-Bardy and Josh Zimmerman
NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey called out his interstate counterparts for failing to “thank” his State for subsidising their budgets at the expense of NSW.
Dan Jervis-Bardy and Dylan Caporn
Treasurer Rita Saffioti has delivered a blunt message in the wake of the latest GST carve-up, which penalised Queensland and NSW for surging coal royalties.
Josh Zimmerman and Dan Jervis-Bardy
WA will receive an extra $830 million in GST revenue next year as the State’s legislated floor rises to 75 cents in the dollar for the first time.
Dan Jervis-Bardy
Peter Dutton might want to get a texta ready for this week’s visit to WA - with Labor demanding a cast iron pledge from the Liberal leader on GST.
Premier Roger Cook says Peter Dutton is the ‘biggest threat’ to WA’s GST, citing former Liberal prime ministers and other senior WA Liberals who said he was opposed to the deal.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has locked in Labor’s support for WA’s fair share GST deal, by signing a pledge on the front page of The West Australian.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says WA’s share of the GST is ‘100 per cent’ guaranteed after a fresh national deal struck late last year.
West Aussies have a well-founded fear of being ignored by the rest of Australia.
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