Health reforms and the 30% GST hand over by the states and territories

Comments on Sue Dunlevy “GST row threatens health reforms”, 18/11/2010, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/gst-row-threatens-health-reforms/story-fn59niix-1225955231264
The strangest thing was why those states and territories that will hand over more than 30% of their GST had agreed to the deal in the first place.

According to the revelation of this report, the ACT will hand over back between 48 and 50 per cent of its GST, that is very different from 30%.

I remember that the ACT chief minister Stanhope said it was a good deal for the ACT.

One has to wonder what can be a worse deal for the ACT!

PS: the information on how much a state or territory has to hand over its GST is contained in the federal budget paper no. 3, 2010-11, that has been available since the budget night early this year.