Menzies’ home ownership or Keating’s super?
Home ownership or superannuation? For an increasing proportion of Australians, it’s one or the other. That is one of the many unresolved problems (with few suggested solutions) outlined in last week’s comprehensive 648-page Treasury Review of Australia’s Retirement Income. At least it supplied a mountain of facts on which an informed debate can take place, although, as one contributor to the review lamented, this will not prevent ‘a balanced discussion of the retirement income system being bedevilled by narratives that serve vested interest rather than the common good’.
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