Jim Chalmers (Rankin, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

Since the parliament last met, the Treasurer gave a speech about ageing which barely mentioned superannuation. That's like giving a speech about leg spin bowling and not mentioning Warnie. It's like giving a speech about health care in Australia and not mentioning Medicare. And it shows that, after almost 30 years of compulsory superannuation—30 years since it was introduced by Labor and embraced by the Australian public—the Liberals and Nationals still can't accept that super, and compulsory super in particular, are key pillars of the Australian economy. You can't understand ageing if you can't understand and embrace superannuation. It's that simple. But those opposite—

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