Angus Taylor says Coalition will fight any changes but Tasmanian MP Bridget Archer says we should not ‘shy away from having a conversation’
While the opposition’s Treasury spokesperson, Angus Taylor, has declared the Coalition will fight any changes, Broadbent said on Monday: “There will be very few people affected by changes to very high superannuation balances because there are so few Australians [in that position].”
Archer told Guardian Australia she didn’t have a view yet on the merits of capping concessions, but she said it was important to have the debate.Archer said it became impossible for governments to govern if they had to run the gauntlet about broken promises every time they floated a particular reform in the national interest. “I think people expect you to govern,” she said.
Archer said if the Albanese government was proposing a root and branch overhaul of super tax concessions, it would be best to put that to voters at an election. But if the proposal was more surgical, then seeking a new mandate wasn’t so necessary.
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