The GST Nullarbor Divide: Labor vs. The Productivity Commission
Resources Minister Madeleine King has publicly branded the Productivity Commission's interim report 'unbalanced, highly speculative and clearly incorrect', reassuring WA voters Labor won't change the deal, while PM Anthony Albanese hedges and says he'll wait for the December final report. This is the day's live political story: a governing party at war with its own advisory body over $60 billion, with a WA election calculus baked in. Listen for how Labor squares defending the deal against pressure from every other state and its own commission.
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The Productivity Commission labeled the twenty eighteen GST reforms a sixty billion dollar mistake for the federal budget.
Western Australia currently receives one hundred and thirteen percent of its assessed fiscal needs under the floor mechanism.
Labor extended the GST floor deal through twenty twenty-nine despite technical findings of national economic inefficiency.
Removing the seventy-five cent GST floor would create a six billion dollar annual budget gap for Western Australia.
South Australia is publicly demanding the federal government abolish the current deal to restore interstate revenue balance.
The federal government is deferring a formal response to the commission until the December twenty twenty-six final report.
- 01Intro1 min
- 02The Umpire’s Verdict2 min
- 03A Cabinet Divided?2 min
- 04The Mechanics of the Floor2 min
- 05The Federation at War2 min
- 06Outro1 min
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- Resources Minister Madeline King assures WA that Labor government won't change GST deal
- Interim report - GST distribution reforms - Productivity Commission
- GST Reforms WA
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- Productivity Commission's GST distribution Interim Report
- Productivity Commission urges Anthony Albanese to scrap ...
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- WA ‘ready to fight' to keep contentious $60bn GST deal as Chalmers orders distribution review
- 'A costly mistake': new review finds giving WA billions in extra GST ...
- Chalmers vows WA will always get 'fair share' of GST
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