Politics podcast: South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill on the tax debate

Politics with Michelle Grattan · Feb 10, 2016 · 26m

South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill’s willingness to countenance an increase to the GST angered federal Labor colleagues. But Weatherill tells Michelle Grattan he has no regrets about his “circuit-breaker” intervention – although he also concedes an increase to the GST is not really a solution to the states' revenue problems.

“It raises too much money in the early years and too little in the later years because GST is not growing at the rate of the growth of our health care expenditure,” he says.

“Even if we were to get a 15% GST it would just kick the can down the road for another 10 or…