A meeting of the federal cabinet in Perth on Tuesday is focussing on finalising national standards for AI and data centres as the Prime Minister again assures Western Australia he will keep the current GST deal in place.

Challenged in a radio interview about why West Australians should believe his pledge to leave the arrangements in place given other broken promises in the budget, Anthony Albanese has declared his government wants to support WA.

“WA is a driver of our national economy and a great strength. And we want to support WA. It’s reasonable that WA gets its fair share, and that’s what this represents,” Mr Albanese told ABC radio.

“Things won’t change with the GST. I’ve made that very clear … I think for a long time, what people here felt was that the East Coast was that triangle around Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, and didn’t give proper consideration to the West.”

Under the current system, WA is guaranteed a floor of 75c of each dollar of its per capita share of the GST, delivering the state an extra $6 billion in funding every year and also pegs the state’s share to New South Wales.

Earlier this month the Productivity Commission labelled the arrangements struck by Scott Morrison in 2018 to return more of a share back to the resources State via top-up payments as a “perverse” and “costly mistake” that disproportionately benefited WA.

Ahead of today’s cabinet meeting Resources Minister Madeleine King, who is from WA, also attacked the Productivity Commission’s interim report which recommended Labor wind back the GST deal.

“I don’t actually quite agree that it has gone through it as methodically as it might have,” Ms King told the ABC.

“When you look through the report, you’ll notice there’s zero reference to suggestions made by the WA government … there is barely a mention. So I think there’s a problem there.”

Mr Albanese also confirmed that Tuesday’s meeting would put the finishing touches on AI national standards that will then go to a meeting of State and Territory leaders on Wednesday, but Labor’s delayed plans to curb net overseas migration was not on the agenda.

Earlier this month, Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke was forced to postpone an announcement on the Albanese government’s migration policy following a reported cabinet split.

“Today we will be finalising the arrangements, including on AI and national standards that will go to national cabinet on tomorrow. So that is the main agenda. There are some other things on the cabinet agenda, of course, that we don’t talk about,” he told ABC radio.

“We won’t be finalising that (migration policy) today. Though we’ve finalised our numbers, we’re headed to 225,000 in two years’ time. We have a series of plans in place, there’s more work to do and we’ll work on that and make announcements at an appropriate time.”