Suggestions we don't support 12% CSG lies: HockeyBY MARK SMITH | WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013 10:45AMOpposition Treasury spokesman Joe Hockey has been forced to clarify the Coalition's stance on the increase in compulsory superannuation contributions from 9% to 12% for the second time in a week. |
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Bill Shorten, no one is in any way interested in what you have to say.
Bill Shorten is starting to sound like a man on borrowed time....back to the union pickett line for you !
Bill Shorten must have a memory lapse.
Who increased the super contibution cap to $1 million in 2007?
Who set substantial super contribution caps in subsequet years?
And who has consistently reduced those contribution caps in recent years since Labor came to be a minority Government?