George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

No. No. Having had a long community discussion about the desirability or otherwise of increasing the GST—a discussion, I might say, initiated by the Labor Premier of South Australia, Mr Jay Weatherill, and a discussion in which premiers from both sides of politics participated, economic commentators participated, former treasurers and former prime ministers participated, and the crossbench of this chamber participated—the government, having taken in the learnings of that discussion, the community having had a very thorough look at this, has decided to take that option off the table.