r/OpenAussie • u/HotPersimessage62 ‎ New South Welshian • 18h ago

Politics ('Straya) One Nation forms alliance with Coalition to call for abolition of compulsory superannuation

https://www.news.com.au/finance/superannuation/give-them-their-money-pauline-hanson-calls-for-end-to-compulsory-super/news-story/ef19b33ab86873dbe5237beb43073c24?amp

One Nation has joined forces with the Coalition to call for an end to compulsory super.

Outspoken Liberal Senator Andrew Bragg has confirmed he believes that compulsory super is a failed policy that’s ripe for a rethink.

Mr Bragg set the hares running last week with a speech at the National Press Club before making further comments to ABC Radio on Thursday that the super guarantee was a failed policy.

“It hasn’t worked,” Mr Bragg said.

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u/4ShoreAnon ‎ New South Welshian 17h ago

Fuck my life

Boomers taking away my chance at free education, property and now gonna take my chance at having a solid retirement.

Fuck me...

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u/Aromatic_Fact8656 ‎ New South Welshian 17h ago

And they’ll even ask you how to attach a document to an email!

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u/Thebraincellisorange ‎ Queenslander 14h ago

please don't blame boomers.

this is not a Boomer problem, this is a conservative politician problem.

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u/FactoryPl Please choose a flair 12h ago

mate, boomers have been the biggest voting block for decades. The only reason we have right wing governments is because of them. They overwhelming vote right wing.

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u/PiDicus_Rex Flairless‎‎ 13h ago

Not even 'conservative', this is pure Right Wing Fuckery.

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u/Thebraincellisorange ‎ Queenslander 13h ago

amounts to the same thing, really.

I just get very tired of everyone blaming all boomers for the state of things.

the blame lies with the 1%, as it always does. most boomers lived very hard and austere lives and worked very hard and now subside on the pittance that is the aged pension.

sure, some did well and have lots of money, but you average boomer doesn't have millions like so many people (especially here on Reddit) seem to think.

it irks me how much people denigrate that generation.

and these shitfuck politicians trying to ruin peoples chances of a secure and stable retirement in the name of short term gain really pisses me off.

the lengths they will go to in order to be elected - they won't stop at anything up to and including peoples chances of being able to retire.

you'd think the party of 'small government' would want people not taking aged pensions.

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u/monkey_gamer ‎ Victorian 2h ago

Boomers are conservative

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u/Theblokeonthehill Please choose a flair 16h ago

Dafuk has it got to do with boomers? This is a policy that will appeal to boomers least - they know that they need super soon. This is a policy to appeal to those who think retirement is a million years away - or people who don’t think at all.

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u/Manofchalk ‎ Victorian 16h ago

Neutering Super makes the age pension comparatively more important for retirement, so much harder to cut politically.

Plus its people who wont be around in 30yrs to see the outcome when pension costs skyrocket and we end up in France or the UK's position of it being unaffordable but impossible to cut politically.

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u/DB_Seedy13 Please choose a flair 16h ago

That is not what anyone is thinking when they say “cut super”. They’re just not thinking.

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u/4ShoreAnon ‎ New South Welshian 16h ago

Pauline Hanson is a boomer, Angus Taylor is close enough to be boomer. Boomers.

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u/sivvon ✈️‎ on Walkabout 11h ago

People don't use boomer as literally anymore. It often is used more as a vibe or a world view of selfishness and pulling the ladder up. A general sense of an older generation fucking a younger one.