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Why banning ‘super for housing’ might be politically unsustainable

Raging inflation and normalising interest rates may now test household tolerance for a compulsory system which forces households to pay fees and margins on both sides of their balance sheet.

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In Sydney’s CBD there is an enormous flat steel sculpture made in the image of former train driver and Labor prime minister Ben Chifley.

When passing it, I sometimes think they should replace it with one of Paul Keating. He more than any other Labor politician expanded the Sydney CBD with banks and funds management companies.

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Nick Hossack is a public policy consultant, former policy director at the Australian Bankers Association, and former adviser to John Howard.

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