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Super industry should be open to home-ownership debate: Bragg
NSW Liberal back-bencher, Senator Andrew Bragg has continued his campaign for a single default fund and for people to be able to access superannuation for a first home deposit.
In a webinar sponsored by the Financial Services Council, Bragg told actuary, Michael Rice, that the Government should provide a basic default product through an organisation which would provide a cheap and cheerful and outsource funds management to the Future Fund.
“Because the Future Fund has investment management credentials this is an easy thing for us to establish,” he said.
What is more, Bragg claimed that if default superannuation had been established by the former Fraser Liberal Government rather than the Hawke/Keating Labor Governments it would have looked very different.
“My view is that we are so heavily invested in this scheme we need to have the best deal possible,” he said. “We would have had this if the Fraser Government had implemented superannuation rather than the Hawke/Keating Government.”
Bragg said that he believed that the superannuation industry needed to be open to the debate around allowing people to access super to purchase a first home, rather than be trenchantly closed to the issue.
“I’m not saying this is something for the silvertails, it is for those who are doing it tough,” he said.
Bragg also suggested that the Government’s hardship early access scheme should not necessarily end with the resolution of the COVID-19 pandemic, and that there should be room for a repeat exercise, if necessary.
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