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Superannuation isn't a retirement income system – we should scrap it

  • Written by Cameron Murray, Research Fellow - Henry Halloran Trust, University of Sydney
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Discussions about Australia’s retirement income system typically begin by reciting the political slogan that there are “three pillars” to the system — the age pension, compulsory super, and voluntary savings.

It was the way the Abbott and Turnbull government’s tax inquiry looked at retirement incomes, and...

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