Seymour's super move: the risks and the opportunity

National learned the wrong lessons from the superannuation u-turns of the 1980s and 1990s. The new Act leader seems to be trying to teach it the right ones. 

Rob Hosking
Mon, 23 Feb 2015

OPINION

Settling a long-term issue, like the state-funded pension, by way of referendum sounds enticing.

Given the vexed nature of the issue and the inevitability of having to deal with it at some point, there is a lot to be said for trying to rule at least some sort of line under it and doing so

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