Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas strongly responds to NSW Premier Chris Minns' claim that Victoria is a welfare state receiving money from NSW families. Pallas criticizes the premier's mathematical skills and clarifies that no money collected in NSW has flowed to Victoria since the introduction of GST. Victoria has consistently received less funding than its population share since 1933.
NSW Premier Chris Minns is flat out wrong to claim that Victoria is “now a welfare state receiving a bunch of money from the pockets of NSW families”.provoked a fiery response on Friday from one of his senior Labor colleagues across the Murray – Victoria n Treasurer Tim Pallas. Victoria n Treasurer Tim Pallas had a strong reaction to the NSW premier’s remarks about Victoria being a “ welfare state ”.
“The mathematically challenged NSW Premier might not be the sharpest tool in the shed, but he is a tool,” Pallas said. Ouch.Since the GST was introduced on July 1, 2000, not a cent collected in NSW has flowed to Victoria. Indeed, over the past 25 years, Victoria has been handed back an average of 89.9¢ for every $1 of GST paid within its borders – slightly below the annual average of 90.4¢ for NSW. More broadly, Victoria remains the only jurisdiction in the nation that has received less than its population share every year since the Commonwealth Grants Commission started dividing up funding between the states in 193
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