{"id":854833,"date":"2026-08-14T10:02:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T10:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/854833\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T10:02:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T10:02:16","slug":"why-the-6-billion-a-year-western-australia-gst-deal-remains-a-political-untouchable-for-the-albanese-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/854833\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the $6 billion-a-year Western Australia GST deal remains a political untouchable for the Albanese government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Productivity Commission\u2019s long-awaited and sorely needed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/link\/follow-20180101-p60o9o\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">report into the disastrous West Australian GST deal<\/a> was on life support even before it was released on Friday afternoon. By then it was dead on arrival.<\/p>\n<p>That much was obvious at breakfast when Anthony Albanese, in a press conference to divulge details of his overnight phone call with US President Donald Trump, gave the interim report short shrift.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Productivity Commission\u2019s long-awaited and sorely needed report into the disastrous West Australian GST deal was on life&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":854834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-854833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}