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Flat White

Pauline Hanson isn’t ripping off Queensland. Canberra’s ripping off the West

8 March 2017

5:30 PM

8 March 2017

5:30 PM

The accusation by Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk that Pauline Hanson is trying to rip $1.6 billion from her home state to send to Western Australia is untrue. The gross injustice to Western Australia was caused by Canberra and should be corrected by Canberra, not Queensland.

The GST was introduced because the High Court, almost a century after federation, found all state taxes on goods at any point in the production and distribution chain to be unconstitutional.

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