Greg Combet: Labor’s cashed-up secret weapon

Get used to seeing Greg Combet’s face on TV; his new ‘personal’ superannuation ads mark the beginning of what promises to become Australia’s biggest-ever multi-million-dollar non-party anti-government political advertising campaign all the way to the 2022 federal election. Extolling the virtues of union-dominated Industry Superannuation Funds, the current Combet ads are just a warning manoeuvre while the government wrestles with its backbench about whether to cancel next July’s start to legislated rises in employers’ superannuation levy for workers from 9.5