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Is there any hope for a fairer carve-up of the GST between the states?

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…

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