FED: COAG hospitals talks over for today, back on Tuesday

AAP General News (Australia)
04-19-2010
FED: COAG hospitals talks over for today, back on Tuesday

The meeting between Prime Minister KEVIN RUDD and state and territory leaders on a
new health plan has broken up for the day .. and the talks remain deadlocked.

The Council of Australian Governments meeting will resume tomorrow.

West Australian Premier COLIN BARNETT says they still haven't gotten to the issue of
the GST .. which remains a major sticking point.

Mr RUDD'S proposing the commonwealth would claw back about 30 per cent of the states'
GST revenue and in return .. the federal government will take control of 60 per cent of
hospital funding.

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KEYWORD: HOSPITALS CLOSE (CANBERRA)

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