​​Keating’s vision for super is crumbling. Good

With each passing retort to the Albanese government, dutifully relayed by The Australian and the AFR, it becomes harder to maintain that former prime minister Paul Keating is any kind of progressive.

Sure, he may once have contributed to some noble policies, and some of his foreign policy views — vulgar China apologia aside — provide a useful counterweight to the defence establishment. But on economics, his supposed forte, he merely tries to drag an already lacklustre government further to the right.

Take his most recent pronouncement: last week, the AFR reported that Keating is opposed to Labor’s $3 million cap on superannuation tax concessions and has been saying so to various fund managers.