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Basil Zempilas has challenged Anthony Albanese to provide an ironclad guarantee during his trip to WA that the State’s current GST share will not change. Right: Anthony Albanese arrives at a dinner in Perth on Sunday night.

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Basil Zempilas demands ‘no change’ to GST from Albanese

EXCLUSIVE: Basil Zempilas has challenged Anthony Albanese to provide an ironclad guarantee during his trip to WA that the State’s current GST share will not change.

Bethany Hiatt

The door is always open, as friends say, and WA has left ours firmly ajar this week for Anthony Albanese to share a keenly sought explanation regarding Western Australia’s ‘fair share’ of the GST. 

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Define ‘fair share’ of GST please, Prime Minister

The door is always open, as friends say, and WA has left ours firmly ajar this week for Anthony Albanese to share a keenly sought explanation regarding Western Australia’s ‘fair share’ of the GST. 

Anthony Albanese is facing a grilling from fired up West Australians when he touches down in Perth tomorrow, with the Prime Minister continuing to refuse to give WA an iron clad guarantee that it will keep its $9 billion-a-year GST deal.

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Anthony Albanese facing $9bn GST firestorm ahead of WA visit

The Prime Minister is facing a grilling from fired up West Aussies when he arrives in Perth on Sunday, as mining and business groups seek an iron clad guarantee WA will keep its $9 billion-a-year GST deal.

Joe Spagnolo

Anthony Albanese knows tinkering with WA’s generous GST deal would earn him the ire of every voter west of the Nullarbor, writes Ben Harvey.

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Why WA’s GST grievance is a nightmare for Labor

Every political decision is considered through three lenses: how many votes will it win; how many votes will it lose; and which part of the country will those votes be won or lost in.

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WA Liberal Leader Basil Zempilas.

State PoliticsVideoPremium‘I could be Eagles coach’: Basil’s cheeky Taylor sledge

Basil Zempilas has jokingly compared the chances of Angus Taylor becoming prime minister to his own unlikely prospects of becoming an AFL coach, during debate over whether WA’s GST deal is in danger.

Oliver Lane

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese could face a WA showdown over the GST when he hits Perth next week.

GST‘Costly mistake’: PM flying into wild, west showdown on GST

Anthony Albanese could face a tough reception when he lands in Perth as he’s expected to host his Federal Cabinet next week after the Productivity Commission report which has angered many in the west.

Caitlyn Rintoul and Jessica Page

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

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PM can’t have it both ways on GST decision

Until the PM defines what a ‘fair share’ for WA means, his current guarantee is worth diddly and squat. 

Jessica Page

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Pictured is Blackburne MD Paul Blackburne.

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Business heavyweights lash plan to rein in WA’s GST deal

WA’s business community has derided the Productivity Commission’s GST carve-up proposal, warning it would harm Australia in the long term.

Adrian Rauso and Rebecca Le May

The Productivity Commission is set to release an interim report into the Morrison-era GST deal.

GSTVideoEverything you need to know about the GST

WA’s deal on the Goods and Services Tax is coming under review — and with it the threat of the State losing its ‘fair share’. Here’s all you need to know about it.

Jessica Page

Premier Roger Cook and Deputy Premier Rita Saffioti released the budget in May.

EconomyVideoPremiumStaggering sum WA will lose next year under GST reform

Western Australia would lose up to $7 billion next year under the Productivity Commission’s proposed GST reform, sending the State Budget far into the red.

Matt Mckenzie

Dr Angela Jackson is a commissioner on the Productivity Commission (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

EconomyPremiumCommission denies bias as it targets WA’s GST deal

The Productivity Commission denies its GST reform report was biased against WA, saying the State’s concerns about plummeting payments during the mining boom were ‘legitimate’. 

Matt Mckenzie

The report advises Treasurer Jim Chalmers to overhaul and dismantle a 2018 multi-billion-dollar deal for the State.

GSTVideoGST ATTACK: Review calls for rollback of WA’s lucrative deal

A 124-page report from the Productivity Commission has launched a fresh attack on WA’s GST arrangement, advising the Treasurer to overhaul and dismantle a 2018 multi-billion-dollar deal for the State.

Caitlyn Rintoul

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese holds a press conference at Australian Parliament House in Canberra.

GSTPremiumAlbanese backs WA as economic powerhouse ahead of GST report

Anthony Albanese says Western Australia needs a fair deal because it’s the driver of the Australian economy.

Caitlyn Rintoul

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Federal PoliticsPremiumHanson vows to protect WA’s GST from east coast ‘bludgers’

Pauline Hanson has backed WA’s share of the GST and called on other States to work harder, reopen their economies and stop relying on handouts from the west.

Caitlyn Rintoul and Jessica Page

The Prime Minister’s main man in Perth Patrick Gorman has expressed confidence that regardless of a Productivity Commission’s review’s findings the State’s fair share will be maintained.

WA NewsPremiumChanges to WA’s GST will ‘destroy’ economy, Labor warns

Senior Labor figures in Perth insist any change to WA’s GST will ‘destroy the national economy’ in a dire warning just days before a highly anticipated review into the Morrison-era top up payments. 

Caitlyn Rintoul

Treasurer Rita Saffioti has reminded eastern whingers, WA does not receive billions in pokie revenues.

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Don’t pokie the bear: Saffioti slams eastern states over GST

Treasurer Rita Saffioti has fired a salvo at eastern states whingers who want to get their hands on the WA’s GST - reminding them that they get billions of dollars in pokie revenues. 

Joe Spagnolo

Trust is in short supply in politics right now, mostly due to the Federal broken-promises Budget. Pictured: Rita Saffioti, Roger Cook, and Anthony Albanese.

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Will Albanese use word games to wriggle out of GST pledge?

What is WA’s ‘fair share’? Is that the same as current share? Or is it leaving wriggle room to claim a reduced share is ‘fair’?

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos MAY 16, 2026: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese pictured at a press conference in Sydney. NewsWire / Damian Shaw

federal politicsVideoPremiumAlbo lands in Perth as Liberals raise alarm over GST pledge

Anthony Albanese has arrived in Perth under pressure after his Ministers refused to explain how his GST pledge to WA remains ‘rock solid’, as senior Liberals warn he can’t be trusted.

Jessica Page

Ex-minister Ed Husic has called on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to act on Israel. NewsWire / Philip Gostelow

GST fightPremium‘Hurting NSW’: Labor backbencher hits out at WA’s GST share

One of Anthony Albanese’s Labor backbenchers has hit out at WA’s share of the GST labelling it a ‘terrible’ and ‘dysfunctional’ deal which he insisted was ‘bad for my state of New South Wales’.

Caitlyn Rintoul

Treasurer Rita Saffioti has hit back at claims the current GST deal isn’t fair.

State PoliticsPremiumSaffioti slaps down ‘busted’ GST deal criticism

The WA Treasurer has hit back at claims by her NSW counterpart accusing WA of being alone in thinking the current GST deal isn’t ‘busted’.

Oliver Lane

GEN Treasurer Rita Saffioti and Housing Minister John Carey press conference at Crown. Rita Saffioti.

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Saffioti lets loose on NSW’s ‘idiotic’ GST argument

The WA Treasurer has unleashed on the NSW Government over its push for WA’s GST take to be lowered, labelling the idea an ‘economically stupid thing to suggest’.

Joe Spagnolo

OECD boss and former Australian finance minister Mathias Cormann AC has told the Productivity Commission WA’s GST deal must remain in place.

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Former Finance Minister and OECD boss backs WA GST deal

Mathias Cormann – a former finance minister and now head of the OECD — has weighed into the fierce GST debate, telling the Productivity Commission in emphatic fashion WA should not be stripped of its money.

Joe Spagnolo

The nation's most populous state will get a smaller slice of the pie in a contentious GST carve-up.

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Commonwealth grants floor lift in WA’s GST battle

WA will receive $9.3 billion in GST payments in the coming year and lift above 75 cents for the first time since 2018, as the body that splits the money warns falling royalties are starting to hit .

Katina Curtis and Jessica Page

WA is boldly asking to keep some iron ore royalties out of the GST formula, as Rita Saffioti tries to head off an attack from other states that want a bigger share of WA’s profits. 

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Saffioti hits back at ‘puerile’ GST complaints

WA is boldly asking to keep some iron ore royalties out of the GST formula, as Rita Saffioti tries to head off an attack from other states that want a bigger share of WA’s profits. 

Jessica Page