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Adrian Black

YOU WONT BELIEVE: Worker super funds to foot bill for compo safety net | Mind Blowing Facts

Industry funds will pay a levy to fund the shortfall in the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)

A plan to tap the $4.3 trillion superannuation sector to help bail out victims of failed investment schemes has made strange bedfellows of union-backed funds and the federal opposition.

Industry and retail funds are being dragged in to help pay a special levy to fund a $47.3 million shortfall in the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort, under federal government reforms driven by the collapse of Shield Master Fund and First Guardian.

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