Beazley "stealing" retirement savings: Brough
AUSTRALIA - Federal assistant treasurer Mal Brough has accused Australian Labor Party leader Kim Beazley of putting the nation's retirement funds at risk and using them to pay for his "pet" infrastructure investments.
Brough’s comments followed Beazley’s ‘nation building blueprint’ speech yesterday which highlighted the need to “drive sensible improvements” in linking some of the A$740bn in Australia's superannuation...
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