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Chalmers reaffirms the government wants to include the defined benefits scheme, which apply to politicians' and public servants' pensions, in the changes:

Yes, we're trying to include the defined benefits schemes in this. There's a lot of complexity in this. Our intention is to include defined benefit.

What we said is that there's an opportunity now, between yesterday's announcement and the budget in May, to engage in some meaningful consultation ... One of the things that we do want to engage on and consult on is how we include defined benefit in the changes we have announced.

We made it really clear yesterday that our focus in the system is on these superannuation tax concessions.

$150bn worth of concessions in the top 10 of those tax breaks by value - a third of that is superannuation.