The Albanese government has form in treating Australians\u2019 superannuation as a policy tool for itself. <\/p>\n
In 2023, Treasurer Jim Chalmers talked about superannuation funds investing in \u201cbig national priorities<\/a>\u201c. More recently, Chalmers flagged<\/a> the importance of making sure that superannuation funds could invest in housing and energy \u2014 two Labor priorities. Chalmers also tried to direct the government\u2019s own superannuation fund<\/a>, the Future Fund, to target Labor\u2019s priorities in housing, manufacturing and energy.<\/p>\n Superannuation funds aren\u2019t a tool of government policy, not even the Future Fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Albanese government has form in treating Australians\u2019 superannuation as a policy tool for itself. In 2023, Treasurer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[72,84746,84747,113,176,84748,5957,61,60,174,175,4627],"class_list":["post-149362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-compensation-scheme-of-last-resort","tag-daniel-mulino","tag-economy","tag-finance","tag-financial-scandals","tag-financial-services","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-superannuation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}