Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has hit out at the WA government after Premier Roger Cook launched a million-dollar advertising campaign to “educate” east coast Australians.

WA’s Labor government launched a major national advertising campaign last week to laud the benefits of the current GST distribution arrangements, which it claims are “working for Australia”.

The campaign includes ads placed in major east coast newspapers, as well as an online campaign encouraging people make submissions to a Productivity Commission review into the current distribution arrangements.

In a social media post coinciding with the launch of the campaign, Premier Cook said the WA government was “running ads in East Coast papers… to educate Eastern Staters about how the GST deal works for everybody”.

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