PM pours cold water on WA getting a bigger share of GST Julia Gillard says there'll be no more GST receipts for WA. PRIME Minister Julia Gillard has poured cold water on WA getting a bigger share of the GST carve-up. Ms Gillard said she could not justify more GST receipts for WA at the expense of less-fortunate states, such as the Northern Territory. "I am not in a position to promise wholesale changes," Ms Gillard told The Sunday Times. It wouldn't be right of me to pretend to people that there will be big changes to this area. There is an important principal at the heart of this, which is that if you live in this country you have an entitlement to health and education services to a certain standard and some of the weaker jurisdictions, like the Northern Territory, can't do that without a (GST) distribution to them. Across the sweep of WA's history during the last 50 years, during 37 of those WA has been a net taker of other states. Now, because of wealth and prosperity here, (WA is) in a stage where it is supporting some of the weaker parts of the country. But Ms Gillard, who heads to China this week to attend the annual Boao Forum for Asia, denied she was abandoning WA in the lead-up to the 2013 federal election. In a pre-election pitch to voters, she said the commonwealth's infrastructure spend in WA had gone up significantly since federal Labor came to power in 2007. She also hinted that federal funding would be provided for the new sports stadium at Burswood. "If we get a submission, we will consider it," she said. We have made modest contributions to other stadiums around the country, but we need to see a submission first and work through it. The Commonwealth Grants Commission last month recommended an increase in the GST share for Queensland but a reduction for WA, pointing out that WA's strong flow of mining royalties gave it the capacity to raise $2200 a person, compared with a national average of $450 a person. In 2013-14, WA's GST receipts will be cut by a further $550 million and Queensland will receive an additional $696 million. It is the first time that a state's share of GST will fall below 50c in the dollar.