Mr Turnbull and Federal Government

state tax: At the same time, Labor and the states have urged the government to boost spending on schools and hospitals, according to Nine News Australia. Mr Turnbull said the states needed to take a careful look at their own taxes, such as stamp duties, and his government would not raise taxes just to spend more."They have got to be prepared ... to go to their citizens and say ... `we need to raise more money to spend on our schools and our hospitals and we are going to increase this state tax or that state tax'," he told 5AA radio in Adelaide on Friday. Mr Turnbull is facing a backlash from within the coalition over a possible rise in the rate of the GST from 10 per cent to 15 per cent. The federal government would no longer be an ATM for the states. Mr Weatherill and NSW Premier Mike Baird have proposed the GST rate rise to 15 per cent with households compensated and the net proceeds going towards the fiscal gap in health, estimated to be $35 billion a year by 2030."Health funding is now shaping as the key federal election issue," Mr Weatherill said on Friday. South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill said he would not accept a rise in the GST unless there was a "revenue fix" that covered the $80 billion in health and education cuts. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.