Rollover reckons it’s no secret that a number of Government back-benchers and, indeed, a number of front-benchers have been questioning the compulsory nature of Australia’s superannuation regime.
Among those who have sought to participate in the debate have been the likes of former Financial Services Council (FSC) policy apparatchik, Senator Andrew Bragg, former IPA staffer, Senator James Patterson and, apparently, the somewhat lesser known and recently-elected Queensland Senator Gerard Rennick.
Rollover doesn’t know much about Rennick, but a quick Google search reveals that he holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Queensland and a Master’s degree in Taxation Law from the University of Sydney having grown up in that epicentre of progressive thought, the Queensland Darling Downs. Oh, and he also apparently believes superannuation is a “cancer”.
Rollover also notes that Rennick has earned the admiration of a chap in New Zealand named Branton Kenton-Dau whose website states he is “interested in understanding complex systems to the point where their structure reveals itself with childlike simplicity”.
And being noticed by Kenton-Dau should be counted as a feather in Senator Rennick’s cap particularly if he is the same Branton Kenton-Dau who in 2002 wrote an open letter to President Bush offering US investors free access to his firm’s (MetaWealth) ratings of over 100 US firms.
He is possibly also the same Branton Kenton-Dau who in 2008 was being interviewed as part of VortexDNA which was looking into the human genome and who in 2012 was reported in Super Review itself as having lauched a tail-risk product for the ASX200 based on data gathered by NASA on space weather patterns.
