West Australian Premier Roger Cook and Treasurer Rita Saffioti came face-to-face with the Canberra press pack this morning as they continued their blitz to convince the eastern states to keep the current GST deal.

Cook and Saffioti were grilled on their claims WA needed the extra $6 billion in GST revenue per year it was getting through a 75 cents-in-the-dollar floor to build economic infrastructure that benefited the rest of the nation.

Cook pointed to his government’s decision to build strategic industrial areas across the state to host new industry.

“What those industrial areas will do will make sure that we can bring renewable energy to bear, so that we can produce green iron, which will ensure that Western Australia can continue to move up the value chain, and we can decarbonise th

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