year. On Wednesday Mr Pyne announced an extra $230 million would be allocated to Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia, the states that did not sign up to the funding model.

The federal minister said he had given the extra money to those states ''to begin to fix Bill Shorten's shambles''.

Mr Piccoli said a ''no disadvantage clause'' in the agreement meant no state could get a better deal than NSW.

''So we will be looking at what's been offered to the other three states who didn't sign up,'' he said.