"Peter van Onselen says forecasting the future is one thing but governing well enough to improve it is the test both major parties keep failing
Compulsory superannuation is doing exactly what it was designed to do, which is why Paul Keating was right to introduce it and Labor was right to insist on lifting the rate when the Coalition wouldn't.
Chalmers will inevitably use the pro-super finding within the report to attack One Nation's proposal to let workers voluntarily redirect three percentage points of their super contributions into wages for up to three years.
But it's a limited measure of individual choice intended to help people confront immediate cost of living and housing pressures, not some sort of attempt to dismantle compulsory super."
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First seen: 2026-09-17 ·
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