TREASURER DICK FINALLY SEES THE LIGHT OF LOGIC REGARDING QUEENSLAND GP PAYROLL TAX DEBACLE

Treasurer Cameron Dick has most certainly changed his tune very quickly. 

From his original unwavering stance from just a few days ago, that there would be absolutely no exemptions given to Queensland GPs caught out by the preposterous new interpretation of the payroll tax regime, to now calling for the debacle to go before national cabinet for some form of logical and pragmatic resolution. 

It's called politics. Dick it seems has finally come round to realizing how politically toxic this is for him and the Palaszczuk government if he doesn't relinquish his ideological convictions and curb his arrogance and bombastic personality and how he now has to be seen as the treasurer who isn't trying to put GPs out of business. 

The treasurer who doesn't want to destroy bulk billing and make a visit to the doctor prohibitively expensive for many a Queenslander. Yes, that makes perfect political sense. 

Because quite literally, that is what will happen if this very avoidable calamity is not urgently dealt with. The legal definition of what GPs are in relation to payroll tax liability and their workplace, as in, the difference between them being "legally" an owner of the building they practice from, as opposed to being classed as a sub-contractor, is nothing short of an minute technicality, in the "real world" that is.

Certainly one that can be circumnavigated by Dick and statutory intervention, assuming that Dick and the Palaszczuk government genuinely want to go to the aid of GPs in Queensland. 

National cabinet shouldn't have to resolve it. Dick could have solved it himself with a few strokes of the pen long before this, but at least now there is acknowledgment from him that the GP tax sting is unacceptable and will result in very poor user end health outcomes for Queenslanders, besides the annihilation of Medicare.