Jason Falinski (Mackellar, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you to the member for Kingsford Smith. I will tell the member for Kingsford Smith what really doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense that you would force people to put more money into industry super so that millionaire fund managers can get paid more money. It doesn't make sense that the regressive left come into this parliament day after day after day and lecture us about people on low incomes and people who are from disadvantaged backgrounds, so they can give more money to their mates in industry super so they can pay themselves more money. The answer of the regressive left is always the same: look after our donors and everyone else can go to hell.

You can stand here and talk about women retiring into poverty, but what you don't want to talk about, what IFM doesn't want to talk about, what industry super doesn't want to talk about, is the tens of millions of dollars that they pay year in and year out in corporate sponsorships, in corporate facilities, quaffing on wine, throwing back the food at the AFL—they all went up there to Queensland. What do their members ever see? Don't come into this chamber and lecture anyone about how they're interested in the retirement of their members. How many of their members could get into Queensland in the last six months from New South Wales? The answer's none. From Victoria? The answer is none. But somehow everyone from industry super who wants can go up there, no doubt with the tens of millions of dollars in corporate advertising. Greg Combet is more famous now than he ever was when he was the minister for climate change under the regressive left.

That's the problem with you guys on that side—sorry, members opposite. You keep talking about how you want to help people, but everything you do only makes their lives worse. This parliament should be all about expanding—

Dr Leigh interjecting—

The member for Fenner raises facts. Let's go to the facts.

Mr Sharma interjecting—

Thank you, Member for Wentworth.

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