1. Annual $1000 contribution for low income earners

2. Increase SG to 12%

3. Remove $450 monthly pay threshold

4. Paid super on parental leave

5. More reporting and accountability

Mavis RobertsonLabor Activist, Founder of Women in Super

Rockin’ for Rights MarchApril 2007

Entitlements introduced by the union movement:• 8 hour day• Weekends• Sick leave• Annual leave• Public holidays• Parental leave

“…if women were to enter the political arena in sufficient numbers at sufficiently high level, the nature of that arena would be radically changed, and it wasn’t.

Sara Dowse, writer and critic,reflecting on her second-wave feminist belief

Source: The New Daily

Workers’ CapitalWorkers’ capital is the substantial sum of money (capital), collectively owned by workers (superannuation savings), in significantly large enough sums to allow working people (or their representatives) to make investment decisions they could not afford as individual workers.

1. Don’t work in a caring profession.2. Don’t take time out of work while you’re

young.3. Don’t take time out of work while you’re

older.4. Don’t be a woman.

Richard Denniss, Chief Economist at the Australia Institute, on how to build your super

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71%of funds with greater gender diversity achieved above average returns

Impact of long

term absence on

the Gender Pay

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