Will those in Tiger Land be asked to enter the lion’s den?

13 November 2020

| By Rollover |

It is November and so Rollover has noted the manner in which football fields have miraculously been turned into cricket grounds and so suspects that those who attended the first-ever AFL Grand Final to be held in Brisbane are now safely back in Melbourne.

What is more, Rollover notes that those who were lucky enough to travel to Queensland, quarantine in affable resort digs on the Gold Coast and then join the AFL bubble ahead of the Grand Final have now returned to a Melbourne which has been freed from lockdown and unshackled from its travel-inhibiting ‘ring of steel’.

Rollover therefore wonders whether those superannuation fund executives who travelled to Queensland to check on their members’ sponsorship investments will be travelling to Canberra to discuss the matter with the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics.

It might prove to be a case of leaving ‘Tiger Land’ to enter a political lion’s den.

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Rollover is a jaded hack who joined the staff of Super Review nearly two decades’ ago and never managed to summon the energy to leave. Known throughout the superannuation industry as a power-luncher and gossip, Rollover spends his time humouring fund managers, eavesdropping at conferences, dozing through briefings and looking for his next free meal.

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