Michael Keenan (Stirling, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the government’s statement confirming that some of the $40 billion from the next two budget surpluses will be channelled into a COAG Reform Fund for expenditure by the states. What portion of the federal surpluses will wind up in the state slush fund? Why should the federal government surplus be used to bail out incompetent state Labor governments?

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