This budget fails to deliver the reform of federal/state relations that has been identified as necessary by a wide variety of individuals, organisations and committees.
In his speech the Treasurer mentioned federal/state relations only once when he played the blame game on dental care. Government ministers constantly call on the states and territories to fund programs from the supposed “rivers of gold” flowing from the GST but in fact the money the states receive from the Commonwealth has declined.
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