Interim report calls for carve-up deal that has only benefited Western Australia to be ‘reshaped’ as it has achieved almost none of its objectives

The GST system has become so broken that a bushfire in NSW delivers a financial windfall to the taxpayers of Western Australia.

The 2018 deal by the Liberal party under Scott Morrison to shore up political support in the west is costing federal taxpayers more than $6 billion a year.