Senate debates

Thursday, 14 May 2020

Questions without Notice

COVID-19: Superannuation

2:37 pm

Photo of Mathias CormannMathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Vice-President of the Executive Council) Share this | Hansard source

I can't remember an occasion where I would have been more directly relevant to a question than this occasion, Mr President! I'm always directly relevant, of course, but I can't remember an occasion when I was more directly relevant than on this occasion, so that was a rather spurious point of order. Just to come to the second part of the question, as the good senator of course did acknowledge, these are younger Australians and younger Australians will be in the workforce longer and will have the opportunity to catch up in terms of their retirement savings, which is a very important point. But right now they are able to use their own money through a system that we put in place to deal with an unprecedented challenge in their personal circumstances, and Australians overwhelmingly have embraced this opportunity.

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