Super

‘I wanted individual workers to have something more than wages alone, an opportunity to access markets. To invest beside the likes of Warren Buffett and not simply be left with a house and a car only, as the Liberal Party always left them.’

Paul Keating

Super tells the improbable origins of Australia’s multi-trillion-dollar superannuation system, one of the world’s largest private pension schemes. It explores super’s nineteenth-century beginnings, dissects its triumphs and fai…