Welcome to The Australian Financial Review\u2019s live coverage of breaking news this Monday, August 17. Here are the top stories we are following:<\/p>\n
Former Liberal prime minister Scott Morrison<\/a> and his then-finance minister Mathias Cormann<\/a> have defended establishing a special GST deal for Western Australia costing more than $6 billion a year. The state treasurers<\/a> involved in the current debate weighed in on the Productivity Commission\u2019s recommendation to unwind the deal.<\/p>\n Changes to the NDIS, gambling advertising and media funding could finally pass parliament after months of political horse-trading.<\/p>\n US President Donald Trump\u2019s envoy met with Egyptian, Qatari and Turkish mediators in Cairo on Sunday, in a bid to advance his Gaza peace plan<\/a>, even as Israel pressed on with airstrikes in the territory.<\/p>\n Opposition Leader Angus Taylor says the Coalition is not currently considering<\/a> any proposals to change how people access their superannuation, despite Treasurer Jim Chalmers going on the attack<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to The Australian Financial Review\u2019s live coverage of breaking news this Monday, August 17. Here are the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":858004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-858003","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\/858003","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=858003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}