Working people’s super can’t be trusted under a Hanson and Bragg partnership

Over the weekend, One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has called for an end to universal superannuation, a move which would put millions of workers at risk of poverty in retirement. 

Hanson’s call for an end to security in retirement comes off the back of Andrew Bragg calling Australia’s world-leading superannuation system a policy failure. 

Dangerously and again out-of-step with many of his colleagues, in July, Senator Bragg left the door open to a Coalition arrangement with One Nation, saying the Liberals would “definitely work out whoever would be interested in being in a coalition with us, if that’s what the numbers were.”

Australian workers collectively hold more than $4 trillion in retirement savings. Every dollar of it is a benefit that will support working people maintain their standard of living from work and into retirement. 

One Nation voted with the Coalition to freeze a legislated increase to the Superannuation Guarantee under the previous Coalition Government, and supported workers raiding their super to get by during COVID. Angus Taylor as Shadow Treasurer campaigned to force working people to drain their super just to get a house. 

Workers can’t trust the Liberals nor One Nation with their retirement. 

Quotes attributable to ACTU Assistant Secretary Joseph Mitchell:

“Angus Taylor failed to keep Bragg on a leash when he compared young people to dogs and now Hanson is spouting rabid anti-super policies. 

“Superannuation is a great Australian success story. Because of superannuation ordinary working people are able to retire and maintain their standard of living into retirement.

“Working people love their super and want to see a successful super system that provides a great retirement income. Rather than support this effort, Andrew Bragg and Pauline Hanson are looking to collaborate and tear it all down.

“Super is not their ideological plaything, it’s hard-earned money for retirement. Unions won’t let One Nation or the Liberals take it away.”