Super The Policy History of Australia's Retirement Savings Scheme

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Title: Super The Policy History of Australia's Retirement Savings Scheme
Author: Emily Millane
Category: Retirement Planning, Aging, Career Planning & Job Hunting
Language: English | 235 Pages | ISBN: 9780522882391


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'I wanted individual workers to have something more than wages alone, an opportunity to access markets. To invest beside the likes of Warren Buffett and not simply be left with a house and a car only, as the Liberal Party always left them.'
Paul Keating
Super tells the improbable origins of Australia's multi-trillion-dollar superannuation system, one of the world's largest private pension schemes. It explores super's nineteenth-century beginnings, dissects its triumphs and failures, and exposes the fierce political battles that created mum-and-dad investors.
Compulsory superannuation is one of Australia's boldest economic and social reforms along with Medicare. It is a masterclass in systemic change amid political turbulence, demonstrating how industrial action filled a space where political activity failed. Over thirty years on, has superannuation achieved the promised retirement security for all, or has it widened divides by gender, race and class? Who pays for...