Overview
- Premier Roger Cook and Treasurer Rita Saffioti met Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Treasurer Jim Chalmers in Canberra and said the PM remains supportive of the current GST deal.
- The WA government unveiled a $1 million national advertising campaign to defend the 75 cents-in-the-dollar funding floor.
- Cook argued the roughly $6 billion a year preserved under the floor underwrites strategic industrial zones and future green iron production that support decarbonisation.
- Economists Saul Eslake and Chris Richardson and eastern state treasurers criticised the floor and the no‑worse‑off guarantee as costly to the Commonwealth, with Eslake estimating more than $24 billion to date.
- WA officials noted the no‑worse‑off guarantee costs about $6 billion a year in payments to other states, and the Productivity Commission is reviewing GST distribution with a report due by the end of 2026.