Windfall Earned From WA’s Royalties Paid for Its GST Distribution Deal

Scrapping WA's GST deal a 'significant unfairness'

Former ministers who helped set up a controversial GST deal for Western Australia have defended the scheme despite calls to scrap it.

Windfall earned from WA’s royalties paid for its GST distribution deal

This was not a zero-sum game. Ignore the Commonwealth’s gains and you misjudge both the cost and the fairness of the reforms.

‘Stunned’ Cormann defends 2018 GST fairness deal

Mathias Cormann, one of the architects of the deal that delivered Western Australia its fair share of the GST, says he is ‘stunned’ that the Productivity Commission wants the agreement ripped up.