We've had enough. 9.5% super is just fine
BRENDAN COATES, GRATTAN INSTITUTEIt’s conventional wisdom that Australians don’t save enough for retirement.
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Don't believe what they say about inequality. Some of us are worse off
PETER WHITEFORD, THE CONVERSATIONIf you were going to reduce a 150
For the fridge door: Every Morrison minister
Some odd promotions, if you ask me:
Rate rise an even-money bet as inflation off the floor
At last, an end to the Reserve Bank’s two-year freeze on interest rates is in sight. But not this year, and not because of particularly high wage growth.
Work to barely pay for returning mothers, inquiry told
The third and final stage of the government's proposed income tax cuts would overwhelmingly benefit men, late evidence presented to the Senate inquiry shows.
The inquiry will report on Monday that calculations prepared by the Parliamentary Budget Office show 1.894 million men would benefit from the final flattening of the tax scales and only 767,000 women.
Pink vs blue tax: the case for taxing women lightly
If women were to be taxed differently to men, it wouldn’t be the first time.
Treasurer Scott Morrison says the idea is absurd.
“You don’t fill out pink forms and blue forms on your tax return. It doesn’t look at what your gender is any more than it looks at whether you are left-handed or right-handed,” he said last week.
He even said, wrongly, that Labor has been suggesting it.
But such a move has happened before.
The case for destroying default super in order to save it
So toxic has much of Australia’s superannuation industry become that some at the very top of the government think the Productivity Commission hasn’t gone far enough.
Portrait of a sick system is chance to put things right
We’re apathetic about super, until we’re not.
On Tuesday phone lines to Australia’s biggest bank-run super funds buckled under a deluge of calls from customers wanting to close multiple accounts. Traffic to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s website for consolidating your super jumped 500 per cent.
The appalling truth about our 'world-class' super
Here’s how you can tell the Productivity Commission was spot-on in its assessment of the superannuation system.
Not a single part of the industry, not one, has explicitly endorsed its key recommendation.
That’s because it is intended to help us: users of superannuation who depend on the industry.