Joel Fitzgibbon (Hunter, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Treasurer and Revenue) Share this | Hansard source

The opposition is supporting these amendments. In the broader superannuation policy context, we look forward to mark 3 of the government’s major superannuation policy proposal. We saw mark 1 in the budget and then we saw mark 2 when they worked out that they had their costings all wrong. We assume that mark 3 will be the final version, but we would have to also assume, I suppose, that there is scope for the government to change its direction yet again. I note that from time to time the government taunts the opposition in this place about our position on the government’s proposal as announced in the budget, but we are waiting for the final proposal and the final costings. We cannot be expected to respond to the government’s superannuation changes proposal until the government finally indicates that it has made its own mind up and provides the opposition with not only the appropriate costings but costings that we can be confident are absolutely correct.

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