The government wants to tap $4 trillion in super to address Australia’s challenges. It’s a risky strategy

Collectively, Australians are sitting on a huge nest egg. At about A$4.5 trillion, our national savings pool is one of the largest in the world. Now, facing big national challenges on housing, productivity, the clean energy transition and more, the federal government has renewed calls to direct superannuation towards solving Australia’s problems. This is not a new idea. But it’s important not to lose sight of the fact that super already is a national asset. We can use our national super…