Australian workers, through their compulsory superannuation contributions, have a stake in companies in which their funds invest. This creates a responsibility to find out if those investments are linked to war crimes, apartheid or genocide as, otherwise, they risk being complicit in Israel's genocide in Gaza.

In her latest report, From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide, Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestine Territories, provides credible evidence of many blue-chip companies profiting from the misery of the Palestinians. Such complicity by these companies is unacceptable and concrete action needs to be taken.

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An agreement in 1983 between the government and the trade unions, known as the Prices and Incomes Accord, unions agreed to forgo a national 3% pay rise, to instead go to the new superannuation system for all employees. This came with the proviso that the trustees of these superannuation funds had an obligation to oversee their investment strategies.

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