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Aaron Patrick

WA’s ‘fair go’ doesn’t look very fair for everyone else

A new GST carve-up means the rest of Australia is subsidising Western Australia, one of the most financially secure governments in the world.

In July 2018, then treasurer Scott Morrison offered what seemed like a magic trick of budgetary manipulation: every state and territory would emerge better off from a new way of carving up the billions pouring into Treasury accounts from the goods and services tax.

In redrafting the rules for sharing revenue between the states and federal government, he promised to preserve “the fair-go principle that has been used since federation to ensure all states get a fair share”.

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Aaron Patrick was a senior correspondent at The Australian Financial Review.

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