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  • 5 days ago | afr.com | Paul Karp |Sumeyya Ilanbey |Jesinta Burton

    The Victorian and West Australian premiers have rejected an attempt by the Queensland treasurer to use negotiations over funding for disability supports as leverage to reform the redistribution of the GST. Even the biggest proponent of GST reform, NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey, on Monday distanced himself from the remarks by Queensland Treasurer David Janetzki to The Australian Financial Review. Loading...

  • 1 week ago | afr.com | Tom Rabe |Jesinta Burton

    West Australian Treasurer Rita Saffioti has warned her trade-exposed state must use its mining riches to insulate itself from rising global tensions and the prospect of war, vowing to invest billions of dollars to diversify the economy and stoke a local manufacturing revival. Saffioti handed down a $2.5 billion operating surplus on Thursday for 2024-25, with $8.5 billion in mining royalties and $7.3 billion in GST receipts keeping WA solidly in the black for a seventh consecutive year. Loading...

  • 1 week ago | afr.com | Jesinta Burton

    Western Australian Treasurer Rita Saffioti handed down a $2.5 billion budget surplus – the state’s seventh in a row – that was supercharged by a windfall in iron ore royalties. The budget, the first since a Labor landslide election victory in March, includes billions of dollars in spending on new infrastructure to support industry and the state’s ballooning population. Loading...

  • 1 week ago | afr.com | Jesinta Burton

    A rock art preservation group backed by the Holmes à Court family matriarch has launched a Supreme Court challenge to overturn the Western Australian government’s approval of gas giant Woodside’s plans to extend the life of its North West Shelf operation. Court documents obtained by The Australian Financial Review show that Friends of Australian Rock Art Inc filed an application for judicial review of the decision on Thursday, the last day of a six-month period allowing an appeal of the ruling.

  • 2 weeks ago | afr.com | Jesinta Burton

    Jun 8, 2025 – 10.00pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Former prime minister Scott Morrison has been awarded the nation’s highest honour for his leadership during the pandemic, one year after the appointment of two COVID-era premiers prompted backlash.

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Jesinta Burton @jesinta_burton
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