Productivity Commission fires back: 'a line was crossed' with WA premier's clown jibe
Commissioner Angela Jackson has publicly rebuked WA Premier Roger Cook for branding the commission 'east coast clowns' and its report 'deceitful', signaling the independent umpire intends to keep fighting for reform despite political pressure.
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The twenty eighteen GST deal cost Australian taxpayers twenty-three billion dollars in extra funding.
Western Australia currently receives one hundred and thirteen percent of its assessed fiscal needs.
Other Australian states receive only ninety-eight percent of the funding required for standard services.
Commissioner Angela Jackson warned that political attacks on independent bodies undermine evidence-based policy.
The Productivity Commission recommends scrapping the state standard benchmark to fix fiscal decoupling.
Current GST rules exclude significant mining wealth from calculations for Western Australia's share.
- 01Intro1 min
- 02The Umpire Strikes Back2 min
- 03The Twenty-Three Billion Dollar Mistake3 min
- 04The Two-Tiered Federation2 min
- 05The December Deadline3 min
- 06Outro1 min
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