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Keep raiding our super and you'll only create a smaller, meaner country

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Keep raiding our super and you'll only create a smaller, meaner country

Simon Cowan

This war on grandparents' savings has to end

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This war on grandparents' savings has to end

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It is impossible to see a meaningful path forward on fiscal reform. There are two reasons for this

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At this rate, the only outcome from this summit will be making us poorer

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At this rate, the only outcome from this summit will be making us poorer

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You know what's a bigger issue than productivity? This culture of entitlement

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Deficit is a worry and right-wing governments aren't going to fix it

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Deficit is a worry and right-wing governments aren't going to fix it

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Arbitrarily increasing defence spending would be a tremendous waste of money. Here's why

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Arbitrarily increasing defence spending would be a tremendous waste of money. Here's why

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The Coalition is simply not ready to govern at the present time

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The only thing America liberated itself from was prosperity

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Time to do away with this insidious tax hurting most of us

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Make large-scale reforms to super or leave it alone

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