Business lobby gives WA Government budget to-do list

Wednesday, 17 Feb 2016 06:40:08

Deidre Willmott is urging the WA Government to focus on regaining its triple-A credit rating. (ABC News: Andrew O'Connor)

Western Australia's business lobby has outlined what it calls a comprehensive to-do list for the State Government ahead of the May budget.

The Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) manifesto is aimed at cutting spending in the public sector and regaining WA's triple-A credit rating.

It includes renewed calls for the Government to scrap stamp duty and payroll tax, a restructure of the public service, a whole of government wage freeze, and the use of user-pays systems infrastructure.

Chamber chief executive Deidre Willlmott said with an election little more than a year away, the Government could not afford to lose sight of the long-term future of the state.

"This is a budget that needs to be about the future, and about how we're going to regain the triple-A credit rating," she said.

"But also about what the strategic priorities for the state will be.

"And that is actually really important going into an election, that we all understand where our state is headed."

The CCI also suggested shifting the treatment of patients from public hospital emergency departments to GPs, in a bid to curtail the state's health spend.

It described wages in the sector as "exorbitant", saying they made up almost 40 per cent of the total health budget.

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Business lobby gives WA Government budget to-do list

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