Australia news live: WA premier’s ‘east coast clowns’ barb was unacceptable, Spender says; value of Japan’s melon gifts to PM revealed

Follow updates live Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Angela Jackson, the commissioner of the Productivity Commission, said the body stands by the interim report into the GST, which found the deal with Western Australia to be a costly mistake that should be reversed. Jackson spoke to RN this morning after WA premier Roger Cook said “east coast clowns” didn’t understand the state and any changes would “rip $6bn out of the Western Australia economy”. We are aiming, of…