‘He is a tool’: the NSW and Victorian rivalry rears its head over the GST. What happened to the lovefest?

Victorian treasurer rips into Chris Minns for ‘welfare state’ comments after the latest carve-up of GST revenue

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It’s not very often the Victorian treasurer, Tim Pallas, holds a press conference just to sledge someone – let alone another member of the Labor party.

But that’s what exactly what he did on Friday morning, with his comments set to make a meeting later that day between the federal, state and territory treasurers a little awkward.

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