Alex Gallacher (SA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Home Affairs, Senator Fifield. Yesterday, the Minister for Finance refused to rule out any cut in the distribution of GST to South Australia and Tasmania. The Productivity Commission's interim report into the economic impact of horizontal fiscal equalisation proposed cuts to the distribution of GST revenue of $557 million to South Australia and $168 million to Tasmania. Can the minister confirm that a cut this severe is equal to cutting 4,422 frontline police in South Australia and 1,334 frontline police in Tasmania?