NSW Premier Chris Minns and Treasurer Daniel Mookhey express dissatisfaction over the GST distribution, claiming NSW is not receiving its fair share and accusing Victoria of being a 'welfare state'. Premier Minns demands an explanation for the $1.6 billion reduction in NSW's share, leading to a war of words between NSW and Victoria politicians.
Victoria Treasurer Tim Pallas has fired back at Chris Minns’ “dripping sense of entitlement” after the NSW Premier became “churlish” with the latest GST carve-up not giving Sydney “preferential treatment”. https://t.co/5A7TiQPChx
A war of words has erupted between politicians from NSW and Victoria over the federal distribution of the GST. https://t.co/Ocjexidp64
NSW Premier Chris Minns sledged Victoria as a “welfare state” after the latest GST carve-up but Tim Pallas fired back saying NSW was an “infrastructure welfare recipient” for decades > https://t.co/PKh8dtyXAQ https://t.co/6LkgTYyqvJ
Chris Minns channelling the Waratah nationalism of the Covid pandemic … Victoria wasted billions under Dan Andrews & after 21 of 25 years of Labor government, Melbourne does not even have airport rail … just some Soviet era “sky bus” https://t.co/TjpTzuxEsG
NSW Premier Chris Minns says Victoria is a “welfare state” after the latest GST carve-up, saying it’s getting “money from the pockets of NSW families”. > https://t.co/2cLYXARTHZ https://t.co/yJ4KnR6o4O
“An accident or deliberate?” 😳 NSW has been punished in the latest GST distribution announced earlier this week. Premier Chris Minns is demanding a full explanation from the Prime Minister as to why almost $1.6 billion has been withdrawn from Australia's largest state and… https://t.co/b7ztxfpSWi
Fighting words from NSW Labor Premier Chris Minns, saying the latest GST carve up sends “a lot of money ... down to Victoria, which is now a welfare state receiving a whole bunch of money from the pockets of NSW families.” #springst
NSW Premier Chris Minns and Treasurer Daniel Mookhey have doubled down on claims the state is not getting its fair share of GST revenue, with the state leader insisting NSW "can't eat last every single time". https://t.co/HcCkHEuh4r
PM Albanese reckons he’s got no control over the GST carve up. Keeps citing the Commonwealth grants commission. Don’t think that is going to go down that well with the eastern state Treasurers. This will be war