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Keating does loopy

Who really benefits out of the changes to super?

6 February 2021

9:00 AM

6 February 2021

9:00 AM

The professional life of Paul Keating comes in three parts: he was an excellent treasurer, very mediocre prime minister and completely loopy post-politics commentator.

It’s been a downhill ride culminating in his hysterical defence of the system of compulsory superannuation which he fathered in the early 1990s.

I use the verb ‘father’ deliberately: it’s as if superannuation is his fifth child, to be supported irrespective of that child’s traits and behaviour.

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