A $60 billion GST fiasco: Report condemns Morrison deal as perverse
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Source: The Age
Published: 2026-08-14 14:00 UTC+10:00
Section: Politics / Federal
Factuality Score: 100
Opinion Category: Neutral
Topics: Politics, Australia, Natural Disasters, Economy & Finance, Business & Economy
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The system that carves up $102 billion worth of GST between the states and territories is so broken that a bushfire in NSW would deliver a multimillion-dollar financial windfall to the state with the strongest finances in the country while hurting every other part of the nation.
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