What do you call pork-barrelling when it involves an entire state? The Albanese government isn’t going to forget that not merely did Western Australia deliver it majority government but that West Australians were unique in 2022 in swinging hard to Labor.
So, what West Australians want, they get. That starts with the rotten GST deal that the Morrison government put in place to nullify the impacts of Western Australia’s energy and mineral wealth on its share of GST revenue. Far from reining in the special treatment afforded to the west, Anthony Albanese extended the deal off to late in the decade.
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