GST deal with Western Australia is mining the rest of us dry

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Shane Wright cannot disguise his frustration at the unfair imbalance in the shonky GST arrangement between the federal government and the states and territories (“The dodgy deal hidden by bulldust”, August 27). That Western Australia is bestowed with much of the nation’s natural resources does not imply, nor should it ever have implied, that WA should enjoy a disproportionately larger part of the bounty from those resources than the rest of us. In vowing to continue the current arrangement, PM Anthony Albanese is following exactly the…

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