Barbara Pocock (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Your arguments essentially go to the statements of: 'It's an existing arrangement. It's a convention. It's complicated,' because the Greens suggested it. I don't think the young people in South Australia who I cited in my speech, those 16- and 17-year olds and the 18-year-old who's missed out on three years super, really care whose idea this is. I don't think they care that you've already done things. I think they don't care about convention. If we cared about convention, we wouldn't even have a super system. We do things because they're the right thing to do. Clearly, your party has considered this over years—that it's important to remove age discrimination in our super system. I just want you to consider that these are not sound arguments, and they will not be convincing to the young people you are today refusing to give justice to in their pay in order to have a decent retirement down the track.