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Jacob Shteyman

'I've signed body parts': Albanese steadfast on GST

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has backed one state's GST deal amid calls for it to be scrapped. (Richard Wainwright/AAP PHOTOS)

A deal described as "costly" and "perverse" that hands Western Australia a larger share of GST than it needs is not going anywhere, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says.

Hounded by Western Australian journalists to lock in the Morrison-era funding arrangement, which the Productivity Commission said in a recent report should be scrapped, the prime minister was unequivocal.

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