Je suis Western Australian. I stand with them and against my own Queensland and all the other States. I refer to WA’s ‘Boston tea party’ complaints about the carve-up of GST receipts. In no sensible world in which a country is purporting to run a federalist system of government does it make sense to say to a constituent State ‘we are going to take over 7 in every 10 dollars raised in your State and give it to others’.