Shadow Assistant Treasurer Stuart Robert says Treasurer Jim Chalmers shouldn’t be telling Australians “how to live” in their retirement following a push for superannuation changes.
“The greatest cause of poverty in later years is not having a roof over your head,” Mr Robert told Sky News
Business Editor Ross Greenwood.“Australians have to have choice, it’s their money … it’s not the governments’.”
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