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LNP convention rejects backpacker tax, backdated super changes

Saturday, 27 Aug 2016 11:41:11 | Chris O'Brien

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The Queensland Liberal National Party (LNP) convention has passed motions against the Federal Government's planned backpacker tax, and the retrospectivity of superannuation changes.

Led by Senator Barry O'Sullivan, the meeting overwhelmingly urged Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to keep the tax-free threshold for international visitors on working holiday visas.

The moves came shortly before Mr Turnbull addressed the convention this morning.

Senator O'Sullivan said the tax change was hated in regional areas and should be "belted out of the park".

He said young Australians could not be bothered to work in the agricultural jobs performed by backpackers.

"Our blonde-haired, blue-eyed Aryan Australian boys and girls will not bend their back to pick those strawberries," he said.

"They won't work in the meatworks. They won't work in so many agricultural and horticultural industries."

The convention also supported delegate David Goodwin's argument that any changes to superannuation should not be made retrospective.

The Federal Government wants to place a $500,000 cap on after-tax contributions to superannuation, backdated to 2007.

"The Treasurer [Scott Morrison] and the Prime Minister are correct in saying that perhaps some of the giveaways that have been given to superannuation are too generous," Mr Goodwin said.

"But we should only ever look at them with a foreshadowed and sensible approach that does not apply any retrospectivity to things."

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