Relearning FederalismAs the big battle over taxation is being joined in Australia (as it is in Europe), there are signs that Canberra is going to demand that the states start husbanding their resources, which have been greatly, indeed surprisingly, swelled by the magnitude of the GST receipts.The states must give some account of where that money has gone. Having made themselves unaccountable to their local electorates, by a mixture of obstacles to FOI investigations, massive PR machines, protect…
