Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Finance and Deregulation, Senator Wong, in her capacity as representing the Treasurer. I refer the minister to the government’s dismissive response last Thursday to an order of the Senate which ordered the production of any advice about the requirement that changes to the GST had to be agreed to unanimously by all parties to those arrangements. Isn’t it the case that the requirement for unanimous agreement is explicit in both the original 1999 GST deal and the 2008 replacement agreement negotiated with all states and territories by this government?