Is there any hope for a fairer carve-up of the GST between the states?
- Written by Saul Eslake, Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow, University of Tasmania
When the Western Australian state government handed down its state budget on Thursday, it showed a balance sheet solidly in the black with a A$2.5 billion surplus. But, as it has for seven years, the state has received an outsized boost to its coffers from the federal government.
In 2018, the Morrison government – with the full support of...