This week ABC’s Media Watch host Paul Barry was “most indignant” at the media’s criticism of the Albanese government for “breaking its election promise” on super, says Sky News Digital Editor Jack Houghton.
Mr Barry said somehow the changes became “an attack on all Australians”, even though they will initially affect “only 80,000 taxpayers who have more than $3 million in their super funds”.
“But what Barry failed to mention is that those indexation will change those numbers completely. As the AFR reported, the number of people affected could climb into the hundreds of thousands eventually due to inflation,” Mr Houghton said. Mr Barry further said, “The superannuation tax changes proposed by Labor won’t take effect until 2025, and they’ll only go ahead if voters re-elect this government, but that didn’t stop TV and the tabloids branding it a broken promise and a breach of trust”.
“Labor will legislate changes this year. That makes it a very clear broken promise, but that doesn’t stop Barry from running government talking points which are blatantly false,” Mr Houghton said.
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