Shorten’s super charter group 'a waste of time’

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9 May 2013
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The Federal Opposition has ridiculed the Financial Services Minister, Bill Shorten, for announcing a 'Charter Group’ to oversee a 'Charter of Superannuation Adequacy and Sustainability’. 

Just minutes after Shorten had announced the formation of the group, the Shadow Assistant Treasurer, Senator Mathias Cormann, dismissed it as a waste of time. 

He claimed the minister had “established a Committee to advise him on the establishment of another committee to stop future governments from doing the bad things Labor has done to superannuation taxation over the past five years”. 

Announcing the so-called Charter Group, Shorten said it would be made up of former Federal Court judge Alan Goldberg; the deputy chairman of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, Ross Jones; former Cooper Review chairman Jeremy Cooper; former AustralianSuper chair Elana Rubin; and former MLC planning boss Steve Tucker. 

The minister said the Charter Group would be seeking input on the establishment of a Council of Superannuation Custodians which would, in turn, “act as an impartial, expert superannuation body which protects the integrity of the scheme and ensure the policy settings are consistent with the core objects, values and principles”.  

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