Treasury Laws Amendment (Payday Superannuation) Bill 2025, Superannuation Guarantee Charge Amendment Bill 2025

Ms CAMPBELL (Moreton) (19:26): As I came to make this speech tonight on the Treasury Laws Amendment (Payday Superannuation) Bill 2025, it got me thinking about some of the great achievements of Labor governments across the decades, of which superannuation most certainly is one. It got me thinking about the fact that it was Labor governments that dismantled Work Choices, something that stole a key portions of workers' rights.

It took them from the people who earned them. That got me thinking about Medicare. Medicare is a great Labor achievement, something that secured accessible and affordable health care for so many millions of Australians, and superannuation is certainly something that secures the futures of millions of people across this country.

All of these great Labor reforms have something in common: when they were designed, put together and thought of, they had everyday working people—everyday Australians—at their heart. They were designed to make sure that those people were looked after, had dignity and had fair outcomes. As we in this place know, this is a government that is firmly focused on delivery.

Whether that delivery is about making sure that we are backing in workers' rights with penalty rates and securing those penalty rates, about expanding bulk-billing to make sure that everyone has access to a bulk-billing doctor or about this bill, a bill that is designed to ensure that people are paid their superannuation, what is clear in each of these great Labor reforms is that we have not sat idly by.

As a Labor government, we continue to build on those reforms each and every day. It is part of our DNA. It is in our blood.

It is something that we continue to deliver and make better every single day. Superannuation was designed and implemented by Labor, and through the years we've protected and strengthened it. Again, that's what this bill is about tonight.

The Keating government made superannuation compulsory in 1992, securing the futures of so many Australians. Its core aim is to ensure that Australian workers are set up for a dignified and secure retirement. It's based on the fundamental ideas of fairness, of trust between governments and the people and that workers should have dignity when they retire.

Importantly, it secures access to capital for everyday people. It doesn't just put it in the hands of a few but expands access to that capital to so many. It's about trust and it's about making sure that, every day, we are ensuring people have the security they require in retirement.

The Super Members Council CEO, Misha Schubert, said, 'Australia has the fastest-growing super system'— Debate interrupted.