Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Vice-President of the Executive Council) Share this | Hansard source

As I've already indicated to the chamber, we're actually doing one better than what Senator Brown is asking. We're making sure every state is not just 'not worse off', but better off. What we don't think is sensible is to run, in perpetuity, two systems in parallel—to continue to run the old formula at the same time as the new formula—when every state, self-evidently, is going to be better off on our numbers and on the numbers of the states.

I ask that further questions be placed on the Notice Paper.