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Good morning readers, and welcome to our live news blog for Thursday, September 25.
Making headlines today is the revelation that the GST deal implemented by the Morrison government that ensured a 75-cent floor for every state – devised largely to placate Western Australia – would be examined by the Productivity Commission.
WA Treasurer Rita Saffioti is confident the deal will withstand scrutiny – but she’s rallying the troops anyway.
“I’m pretty I’m very confident that the Albanese government understands WA and backs WA, but we’re going to make sure that that pressure that’s coming from the other states is diminished,” she said on Wednesday.
WA opposition frontbencher Andrew Hastie.Credit: Trevor Collens
WA will also launch an advertising blitz in east coast newspapers, presenting WA’s case outside the state.
Staying with politics, and outspoken WA frontbencher Andrew Hastie claims Australians feel like “strangers in our own home”, saying the post-pandemic influx of migrants was creating a housing crisis that could keep the Liberals in exile for years if the party did not tackle it.
Hastie put a spotlight on migrant-driven demand in an Instagram post on Wednesday, making it the latest policy issue on which he has put forward populist talking points that differ from those of Opposition Leader Sussan Ley.
And finally, students at Curtin University’s accommodation are facing a rent hike.
With cost-of-living spiralling out of control, and the ordinary rental market already wildly expensive, the Student Guild says the latest increases are “indefensible”.
Thank you for joining us this morning. Stay tuned as we bring you more news you need to know.
