Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer confirm that in February this year he directed the Commonwealth Grants Commission not to reduce Western Australia's GST payments as a result of Western Australia's increases in iron ore fines royalty rates? Now that the Treasurer has had a meeting, a phone call, a Treasury brief and in fact wrote to the Grants Commission on the subject, how can he still have claimed last Friday that he had no notice of the actions of the Western Australian government?

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