Liberals Begin Long Road Back With Bold Policy That Will Definitely Win New Voters: Scrapping Super

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The nation's opposition (arguably) are finishing the week with a bang.

The soon to be minor party (according to the polls) has revealed a stunning new plan to win back voters.

That plan revolves around cutting a well respected institution of modern Australian life - superannuation.

With their main rivals One Nation coming out as one of the gayest parties in Australia this week, the move to cut super is believed to be a return to their traditional Liberal roots of financial deregulation and eroding workers rights in the name of 'individual freedom' and 'small government'.

With Opposition backbenchers throwing peanuts at their leader over his links to an ICAC inquiry he refuses to answer questions about, his front bench are now moving to put forward a sure to be popular policy across the political spectrum.

Speaking at the National Press Club this week, and followed up with an interview on the ABC, senior Liberal Andrew Bragg has revealed that he thinks 'super is a failed policy' and 'ripe for a rethink.'

Coming after their previous suggestion to allow people to raid their super to buy a house, Bragg and co are apparently keen to scrap universal super entirely.

One of the man reasons cited is that super doesn't really move enough people off the pension.

However, the main reason which hasn't been cited is the clever little hack it will serve as to suppress wages for big business and employers around the country.

With super essentially removed from wages, the move would allows business to give employees a 'real pay-rise' for the next few years without having to pay more money - at the tiny cost of a thing called their employee's future financial security.

The soft launching of the idea has of course received very little coverage from media organisations around the country.

More to come, much more quietly.