16 October 2024

The Prime Minister on his last visit to Tasmania said that he couldn’t exempt Tasmania’s stadium funding from GST because if he did, he would have to exempt Olympics infrastructure in Queensland from GST. The truth of the matter is that Queensland is getting a GST exemption. The Prime Minister’s own treasury department confirmed it.

He also said there shouldn’t be an exemption for Tasmania because when he was Infrastructure Minister, he never exempted any projects from GST. The reality is he did.

There is no reason Tasmania should not get its GST exemption. Tasmania deserves to be treated like other states on fair and equal terms.

Do the right thing by Tasmania give us our fair share of GST, not more fake excuses.