Who says big business runs Australia? Not Senator Andrew Bragg, who has the unusual honour of being, he believes, the first employee of the Business Council of Australia to be elected to the Australian Parliament, and quite possibly the only former financial services lobbyist in history to seek wholesale nationalisation of his former employer.

Bragg, a 36-year-old newly elected Liberal from Sydney, is determined to make a political reputation fast. He's doing it by taking on one of the most well-resourced industries in the nation: the industrial superannuation complex.