Leaked documents reveal Canberra is prepared to pay 45% of growth in hospital costs,but not final two years of Gonski school funding plan
• Read the leaked documentsMalcolm Turnbull is offering state premiers more than $3bn in extra funding for hospitals over the next three years but wants to hand over responsibility for public school funding as part of his radical plan to give the states their own income taxes.
A leaked draft heads of agreement for Friday’s Council of Australian Governments (Coag) assembly reveals the commonwealth is offering to pay 45% of the growth in hospital costs over the next three years up to a cap of 6% growth. In most states hospital costs fill been growing at less than 6% in recent years, but the 45% federal share represents a saving of nearly $1bn compared with the funding that had been promised by the former Labor government.
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Source: theguardian.com