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Episode: What could happen to benefits and superannuation after the election?
Description: Billions of dollars are spent on our benefit system every year. And every election, politicians debate fiercely about where we should be cutting or increasing contributions to make the system fairer. This topic is incredibly fraught given that some of the population will invariably be unemployed or simply unable to work at any given point. And as we’ve seen with the Reserve Bank’s moves this year, it sometimes even better for the economy when more people are unemployed.   Hanging over all this is the giant spectre of superannuation, which our major political parties are never...