Carol Brown (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Disability and Carers) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Health, Senator McKenzie. Yesterday, the Minister for Finance refused to rule out any cut to the distribution of GST to South Australia and Tasmania. The Productivity Commission's interim report into the economic impact of horizontal fiscal equalisation proposed cuts to the distribution of GST revenue of $557 million to South Australia and $168 million to Tasmania. Can the minister confirm that a cut this severe is equal to cutting 4,996 nurses in South Australia and 1,507 nurses in Tasmania?