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superannuation
National affairs
Not-so-super strategy
Peter Brent
3 March 2023
Does the timing of the government’s superannuation tax reforms make any electoral sense?
National affairs
Minding the wrong gap?
Danielle Wood, with Brendan Coates and Tom Crowley
21 April 2021
Does focusing on the gender gap in retirement incomes miss the bigger picture?
National affairs
If the future is more super, then the future is greater inequality
Mike Steketee
5 February 2021
The superannuation guarantee shouldn’t rise until the system is made fairer
National affairs
The pension is here to stay (and that’s a good thing)
Brendan Coates
30 November 2020
The government’s retirement income review has challenged outmoded views about superannuation
National affairs
Putting the heat on polluting businesses
Peter Mares
13 October 2020
Has BlackRock upped the ante for investor action on climate change?
National affairs
Why I changed my mind about super
Saul Eslake
11 September 2020
How one economist came to have doubts about the plan to lift the compulsory superannuation contribution rate
National affairs
Invest with the best
John Quiggin
29 January 2020
With governments failing to act, divesting from carbon-based fuel investments is more important than ever
National affairs
Why the banks should be more like Bunnings
Tim Colebatch
6 February 2019
Kenneth Hayne has shown the way ahead for government, regulators and the banks themselves
National affairs
What could possibly go wrong?
Michael Gill
5 February 2019
Hayne calls for surgery, Frydenberg takes a tablet
National affairs
“They did because they could”: the royal commission in its own words
Kenneth Hayne
5 February 2019
Key passages from the report of the banking and finance royal commission, selected by
Tim Colebatch
National affairs
The (reassuring) truth about retirement incomes
Brendan Coates & John Daley
9 November 2018
Despite what the industry is saying, we don’t need to lift the superannuation guarantee to 12 per cent
National affairs
Not so super
Brendan Coates, John Daley & Trent Wiltshire
29 April 2018
Increasing the Superannuation Guarantee will help the rich at the expense of the poor
National affairs
Uncluttering ex-MPs’ entitlements
Tony Blackshield
13 October 2016
A tangle of legislation lay behind the case taken by former parliamentarians to protect their superannuation and travel concessions
National affairs
More risk than meets the eye
Michael Gill
3 June 2015
Has Australia’s finance sector grown unsustainably powerful? Two landmark speeches highlight the scale of the problem, writes
Michael Gill
National affairs
Two intergenerational reports for the price of one is no bargain
Tim Colebatch
5 March 2015
A serious message has been swamped by politics in this latest attempt to model the next forty years, argues
Tim Colebatch
in Canberra
National affairs
Crowding out
Michael Gill
23 February 2015
A new report highlights the dangers of a burgeoning finance sector, writes
Michael Gill
National affairs
Time to slay some sacred cows
Michael Gill
13 February 2015
Better ways of dealing with the federal budget deficit would also boost growth, argues
Michael Gill
National affairs
Unfair, inefficient and expensive: what went wrong with Australia’s superannuation system
Mike Steketee
18 February 2013
The same ministers who scour every nook and cranny to find savings are throwing money at superannuation tax concessions with dubious benefits, writes
Mike Steketee
National affairs
Compulsory super: the scheme that failed
Michael Gill
5 October 2012
A new report reveals deep flaws in Australia’s compulsory superannuation scheme
National affairs
Compulsory superannuation: a policy in search of evidence
Brian Toohey
3 February 2011
Left to themselves, many employees would spend the money that goes into superannuation on raising a family, paying off a mortgage or pursuing further education. Compulsion robs…
National affairs
Spooked
Brian Toohey
2 June 2009
The federal government is so anxious to avoid debt that it’s endangering its main priorities, writes
Brian Toohey
National affairs
Onwards and upwards
Brian Toohey
31 March 2009
The growing demands of the superannuation industry are narrowing the government’s spending options, writes
Brian Toohey