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Big super’s $85m political war chest

APRA documents detail super fund payments to political entities surged in election years.

Last Monday, Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones was incensed by this column’s examination of the new Labor government’s draft regulations that seek to overhaul year-old superannuation laws enforcing disclosure of political donations and payments made by funds.

Liberal senator Andrew Bragg had separately claimed on Twitter that the draft regulations (released late on a Friday afternoon) aimed to “hide super fund political donations & their payments to unions”.

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Michael Roddan is a Walkley Award-winning national correspondent based in Sydney. He is a former business and economics reporter for The Australian. Connect with Michael on Twitter. Email Michael at m.roddan@afr.com

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