Scrap the West Australian GST deal set to cost $40 billion – leading economists
- Written by: Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
Australia’s top economists overwhelmingly want Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to scrap a special deal with Western Australia that’s set to deliver it an extra A$40 billion in Commonwealth funding by the end of the decade.
Albanese pledged to maintain the special treatment for Western Australia in a visit to Perth in February. He even...
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