Australian Council of Social Service's chief executive Cassandra Goldie opposes an increase to compulsory superannuation contributions to 12 per cent. Paul Keating, whose government introduced compulsory super, has advocated for the increase.
held nothing back when he appeared as the star of Labor’s start of the year knees-up in Canberra on Monday night.Some Labor MPs grumbled that organisers of the National Press Club dinner had in the past dangled the possible attendance of the former prime minister to ensure a major turn-out.
By all accounts, it was worth the wait. Keating recounted at length the economic record of his time in government. But he saved his most pointed remarks for the Australian Council of Social Service and its chief executiveFinancial Review on Monday, where she opposed an increase to compulsory superannuation contributions to 12 per cent. She suggested it would slow wage increases to low income earners.Keating, whose government introduced compulsory super, has advocated for the increase. For her comments, Goldie was accused of having a fundamental misunderstanding of the scheme. ACOSS, Keating opined according to three people who spoke to this column, was a “truly no good organisation”. ACOSS, he added, had giventhe idea to introduce a GST. If the organisation ever came knocking, MPs should turn them away. He also reserved harsh commentary for think tanks and lobbyists, a missive he delivered standing in front of a Hawker Britton banner .We put the reported content of the speech to his office. In response, Keating’s spokeswomanraised grievances about a perceived slight visited by this column on the ex-PMs daughterand made reference to a spurious conspiracy that this was done “at the bidding” of our “associate” at theWe console ourselves in the knowledge Keating’s list of enemies would stretch from Potts Point to Perth.’s 50th birthday. The celebrations included a bagpipe serenade provided by
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