PM abandoning GST fight: NT

STATES and territories have looming budgetary black holes to fill for health, the NT leader says, and Malcolm Turnbull is abandoning the GST fight.

THE Northern Territory's chief minister has accused Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull of walking away from a fight on the GST.

ADAM Giles had previously invited his state and territory counterparts to a tax summit in Darwin next month to discuss the issue of raising the GST.