Mark McGowan draws battle lines over GST share as Dominic Perrottet sworn in as NSW Premier - ABC News

Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan has slammed his freshly sworn-in New South Wales counterpart as a "whinger" for using his first public speech to push for GST reform.

Key points:

• Dominic Perrotett has pledged to keep fighting for changes to the GST carve up
• In 2018, WA lead a successful campaign to change to the system
• Mark McGowan says NSW should be "grateful" for WA's strong economy 

Dominic Perrottet — who was today installed as Premier after the resignation of Gladys Berejiklian on Friday — has long pushed for New South Wales to receive a higher GST deal, and singled out Western Australia for its share.

Mr Perrottet last month labelled Mr McGowan the "Gollum of Australian politics" over the issue after Western Australia posted a $5.8 billion budget surplus.

"You can just picture him over there in his cave with his little precious, the GST," the then-NSW Treasurer said.

After being sworn in to the top job this morning, Mr Perrottet said he would not allow New South Wales to become "worse off" in the national GST carve-up.

"This is not a Kumbaya session — this is about fighting for our state," he said.

"Mark fights for his state, but my job is to represent the people of New South Wales.

"When it comes to GST … I'm not going to stand by and have New South Wales worse off because … it's GST that pays for our schools and our hospitals and our nurses and our teachers and our police officers."

Dominic Perrottet was sworn in as NSW Premier on Tuesday, replacing Gladys Berejiklian.(

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Mr Perrottet said his state was at significant disadvantage under the current GST redistribution system, which was last altered by the federal government in 2018.

"I think Western Australia, particularly, needs to come to the table and get a deal that's fair to the country," he said.

NSW finances 'appalling', says McGowan

In response, Mr McGowan branded New South Wales as "very poor financial managers".

"They now have massive deficits and massive debt," Mr McGowan said.

"They managed COVID very badly. Instead of looking in the mirror, they look west to blame us for their situation.

Mark McGowan handed down a budget surplus of $5.6 billion in September, that was later revised up to $5.8 billion.(

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"Rather than attack Western Australia, they should be grateful for what the people of this state have done to continue to fund their state.

"We handed out a budget recently $5.8 billion surplus. They've got deficits in tens of billions of dollars.

"So clearly, we won't cop any stick from them."

Federal leaders do not support GST changes

Both Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese have pledged not to make any changes to the GST.

However, Mr McGowan said he was concerned that sustained pressure by Mr Perrottet and other state and territory leaders would open the door for changes during a planned review of the system in 2025.

"To be frank with you, I'm tired of listening to their whingeing. They never stop whingeing," Mr McGowan said.

"The reality is we have supported them far more than they support us and they should stop trying to undermine the deal."

Before the 2018 deal, Western Australia was receiving back about 30 cents of every dollar of GST collected within the state.

Under the current policy, no state's GST share would fall below 75 cents for every dollar.

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