Labor says Frydenberg will be forced into backdown on GST guarantee

Jim Chalmers says the opposition is ‘confident that our view will prevail as it has prevailed in the past’

Labor is confident the government will be forced to legislate a guarantee no state or territory will be worse off under new GST carve-up arrangements.

The opposition’s finance spokesman, Jim Chalmers, said his party would lobby crossbench senators to support tacking on a guarantee to legislation putting a 75c floor in payments to states.

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