00:01The GST is supposed to help each jurisdiction provide services and infrastructure to the same standard, level the playing field.
00:09But WA's mining boom drove up the state's ability to fund itself, meaning it received less GST.
00:15When mining royalties fell after the global financial crisis, WA was caught short.
00:21Reforms in 2018 due to political pressure from WA set a GST floor to address that volatility.
00:27And you can see, even as those royalties went up, so too did the GST.
00:31But the Productivity Commission has found, while no other state was worse off, only Western Australia has benefited from those
00:38reforms.
00:39The Commission's recommendation to scrap the 2018 deal has infuriated the WA government.
00:45These East Coast clowns simply do not understand Western Australia.
00:50It's simply illogical. It doesn't support economic growth.
00:53The decision setting off alarm bells at Government HQ.
00:56This is now getting very bad.
00:59Ah, this isn't good.
01:01Yeah, while we're gone, they're going to take our GST.
01:04The government continuing its tirade outside.
01:07They have not been worse off, at all.
01:09We should not be penalised for doing the heavy lifting on economic activity.
01:14The Productivity Commission is suggesting getting rid of the GST floor and addressing any royalty volatility as it arises.
01:20It's cost a lot more, and it hasn't delivered the benefits that we thought it might at the time.
01:26The Prime Minister has repeatedly promised WA there would be no change, now saying...
01:31I assure Western Australians of this. You will get your fair share.
01:37The definition of fair up for interpretation.
01:40It was unfair. It's made Australia unfairer, and it's made Western Australia richer. Unfair.
01:45Every state and every territory, with the exception of Western Australia, wants change.
01:50The Prime Minister's word now being called into question.
01:53Anthony Albanese, who backtracked on negative gearing, who backtracked on capital gains tax.
01:59How can any West Australian trust that he is not going to backtrack on what is right for West Australians?
02:06I hope he will now have the fortitude to break a promise that he shouldn't have made to keep shovelling
02:13money across the Nullarbor.
02:14A bitter fight over billions entering a new phase.
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