00:04Touring the newly built Edmondson Park High School, Chris Minns decided it was time to
00:09strike.
00:11We're not allowed to leave until I land one.
00:13His target may have been wide open, but today the Premier had another goal more squarely
00:18in his sights.
00:19To let the people in New South Wales know what a bad deal we're getting from the GST
00:24and then call for change.
00:25We can't do it by ourselves.
00:26Using full page ads, the government's been joined by unions, business and community
00:30groups calling for more GST revenue, with no shortage of ideas about how to spend it.
00:36Reduce the payroll tax threshold.
00:39Roads, rails, schools, hospitals.
00:41The GST is carved up based on need and capacity to raise revenue, so when WA's mining boom boosted
00:48that state's coffers, it also depleted its share of the GST pie.
00:52But the Morrison government ensured WA would be topped up, a policy that's expected to
00:57cost the federal budget $60 billion by the end of the decade.
01:01West Australia gets a $6 billion subsidy from every other Australian every year.
01:08Having already labelled East Coast Premiers whinges, WA's leader says states like New South
01:14Wales are forgetting their own rivers of gold.
01:17On the East Coast, they destroy their communities through pokies, but they keep all the cash associated
01:23with the taxes associated with that.
01:24While the Albanese government's rejected calls to change WA's deal, it previously extended
01:30a financial guarantee so that states like New South Wales won't be worse off as a result.
01:35It lasts until mid-2030.
01:38In the meantime, Chris Min says he'll keep campaigning, hoping that persistence pays off.
01:44Oh, there you go.
01:45One zero.
01:46Go.
01:47Go.
01:47Go.
01:47Go.
01:48Go.
01:48Go.
01:49Go.
01:49You
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