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'About bloody time': Industry responds to PPL super reform

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2024
... much-needed dollars to their retirement accounts, narrowing the gender super gap and making Australia's super system fairer," HESTA chief executive Debby Blakey said. Women in Super has also long advocated for this measure, with chief executive Jo ...

Payday super protects most vulnerable: SMC

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2023
... attracting compound interest for longer." Roxon added that moving to payday super modernises outdated laws, making the system fairer and more equitable for workers and employers alike. It will help ensure super is paid on time and in full, meaning Australians ...

Cost-of-living crisis puts young members at risk: Rest

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 31 OCT 2023
... service." While acknowledging that funds can't do it all, Doyle urges her industry peers to seize every chance to create a fairer, more equitable super system for the future of young members, citing recent initiatives like the removal of the $450 monthly ...

Super tough sell for First Nations people: Podcast

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2023
... between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, Usher said it is essential to address the existing reality to establish a fairer system. He suggests one way is to create a tiered early release system, applicable by postcode, acknowledging that it ...

Greg Combet steps down as IFM Investors, ISA chair

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUN 2023
... executive Bernie Dean commented: "It's hard to overstate the impact Greg has had. He leaves the super system and the nation fairer, wealthier, and better prepared for the future." "Millions of members can be confident they'll be more financially ...

HESTA pushes for gig worker super entitlements

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 29 MAY 2023
... compliance activities for gig workers in 'employee-like' arrangements. "We will continue working towards achieving a fairer and more equitable superannuation framework for all Australians," Blakey concluded. The Association of Superannuation ...

Payday super to boost retirement savings for millions

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAY 2023
... chief executive Vicki Doyle said the government's decision to pay super with wages makes the superannuation industry fairer and more equitable, providing working Australians a greater opportunity to achieve their best possible retirement. "A significant ...

Cut spending and raise taxes, super preservation age: Grattan

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2023
... target super tax concessions to their policy purpose, would not change savings behaviour, and would help make the system fairer," Grattan said. The second super measure is to increase the age at which people can use their super, from 60 to 65, over the ...

Grattan finds $14bn savings in super tax break overhaul

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 3 APR 2023
... geared towards giving high-income earners tax windfalls. The newly released report, Super savings: Practical policies for fairer superannuation and a stronger budget, found that the current system's "excessively generous" tax breaks are unfair and ...

Pay gap bill passes, effective next year

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAR 2023
... said, the fund wants to see super paid to workers on parental leave. "Because this will help make our retirement system fairer for all Australians and take an important step forward in addressing the gender super gap," she commented.
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